Fries is used as a family name or surname in Germany, Denmark. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Fries
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Germany, Denmark
Meaning:

The variant form of the Friesen. One who came from Frisia, in northern Germany.

One who came from Frisia, in northern Germany.

How popular is Fries?

Fries is common in Germany, United States, Switzerland, Brazil, France, Canada, Austria, Sweden, South Africa, Denmark, Belgium, Argentina, Netherlands.

Fries is ranked 16072 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Fries bearers increased by 2.19 per cent in 2010 US census to 8540 since 2000, the surname slipped by 237 spots and ranked at 4150. The last name was found in around 3 per hundred thousand population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 94.04 96.1
Hispanic or Latino 2.72 1.45
Others 1.26 0.74
Black 1.07 0.95
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.67 0.47
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.25 0.3
Fries is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Germany which signifies that it is originated from Germany. Around 34683 people have been found who wears Fries as their family name. Fries is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with ten thousands of Fries:
584 Germany16,446
3,739 United States12,052
Countries with thousands of Fries:
910 Switzerland1,401
6,409 Brazil1,287
Countries with hundreds of Fries:
14,559 France668
8,144 Canada516
2,880 Austria457
2,984 Sweden265
23,014 South Africa247
2,483 Denmark232
11,538 Belgium159
26,358 Argentina128
22,745 Netherlands111
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
10,885 Israel92
26,919 Australia87
1,225 Luxembourg74
24,859 Czechia65
35,195 Spain52
52,584 England51
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
11,471 Dominican Republic31
255,572 Thailand31
6,555 Taiwan25
4,957 Paraguay23
24,793 Norway23
13,856 Singapore17
126,214 Poland11
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
60,629 Slovakia10
36,710 Croatia9
221,039 Philippines9
460,137 Indonesia9
118,213 Italy7
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Immigrants to US

From Germany

Agnesa Fries was 27 years old when she migrated to USA on June 18, 1852. She lived in Hessen and took Dewitt Clinton from Rotterdam. Dorothea Fries, aged 8 months old, Elisabetha Fries (56) Farmer, 32 years old Heinrich Fries, 3 years old Jacob Fries, Merchant John Fries, 26 years old Balthasar Fries, Johann Fries, aged 17, 4 years old Barbara Fries, and 646 other Fries around 48.22% of whom were farmer while others worked as merchant and baker, laborer, tailor, farmer and mechanic, cooper, musician, carpenter, weaver, mason, boot &, shoe maker, daughter, clerk, cigar maker, spinster, miller, servant, butcher, engineer, gardener, seaman, joiner, shoemaker, smith, painter migrated to US from Rotterdam, London, Liverpool and Havre.

Fries Namesakes

  • John Fries, Pennsylvania auctioneer
  • Jan Fries, German occultist and "freestyle" shaman
  • Adelaide Fries, foremost scholar of the history and genealogy of the Moravians
  • Ed Fries, American video game programmer and entrepreneur
  • Hans Fries, Swiss painter before the Reformation
  • Elias Magnus Fries, scientist
  • Jakob Friedrich Fries, German post-Kantian philosopher
  • Karl Theophil Fries, German chemist
  • Regular Fries, were an English electronica/rock group
  • Frank W. Fries, U.S. Representative from Illinois
  • George Fries, physician and a two-term U.S. Representative
  • Otto Fries, American film actor

Fries Namesakes

  • John Fries, Pennsylvania auctioneer
  • Jan Fries, German occultist and "freestyle" shaman
  • Adelaide Fries, foremost scholar of the history and genealogy of the Moravians
  • Ed Fries, American video game programmer and entrepreneur
  • Hans Fries, Swiss painter before the Reformation
  • Elias Magnus Fries, scientist
  • Jakob Friedrich Fries, German post-Kantian philosopher
  • Karl Theophil Fries, German chemist
  • Regular Fries, were an English electronica/rock group
  • Frank W. Fries, U.S. Representative from Illinois
  • George Fries, physician and a two-term U.S. Representative
  • Otto Fries, American film actor

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