Freitag Surname

12,264th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 45,815 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Freitag Surname Definition:

(German) Descendant of Freitag, the name sometimes given to one born on Friday.

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Freitag Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany31,5931:2,548247
United States6,6041:54,8856,547
Brazil2,4281:88,1693,329
Austria1,5191:5,606652
Poland9251:41,0916,440
Switzerland7381:11,1291,835
Canada4811:76,6028,623
South Africa3101:174,76719,310
Australia1451:186,17718,652
Norway1401:36,7315,190
England1231:452,99229,924
Argentina1211:353,25127,617
Spain621:754,06531,946
Luxembourg581:10,0091,703
France581:1,145,219121,886
Netherlands571:296,26635,624
Paraguay551:131,5772,835
Sweden451:218,81715,158
Czechia361:295,37437,799
Croatia301:140,95319,667
Israel301:285,25425,178
Estonia271:48,9569,235
Thailand261:2,716,859279,944
Denmark221:256,57819,736
New Zealand201:226,41621,878
Singapore171:323,98313,856
United Arab Emirates91:1,018,03036,884
Scotland91:594,86921,724
Peru91:3,531,56931,288
Wales91:343,83718,086
Chile91:1,957,38629,026
Mexico81:15,515,77647,773
Italy81:7,644,586115,463
Malaysia71:4,213,461150,293
Belgium61:1,916,107103,447
Kazakhstan51:3,536,499118,599
Jamaica51:573,98910,196
China51:273,464,31313,838
Venezuela51:6,040,81547,898
Kosovo41:465,46710,032
Portugal41:2,604,56016,079
Philippines41:25,309,556279,062
Colombia31:15,924,69128,711
Russia31:48,041,019639,186
Hungary21:4,908,13864,617
Indonesia21:66,124,597756,638
Japan21:63,922,14662,827
Turkey21:38,910,711171,901
Slovakia21:2,668,225118,680
Slovenia21:1,243,83827,519
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Panama11:3,912,25817,195
Syria11:19,301,02222,457
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646
Bahrain11:1,348,60810,432
Uzbekistan11:30,929,14267,786
Albania11:2,914,05529,474
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Serbia11:7,144,94838,459
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Mongolia11:2,825,28917,010
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Lithuania11:3,034,58847,401
Kyrgyzstan11:5,972,65499,197
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Gibraltar11:33,9541,660
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England131:1,875,02858,113
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3941:127,45912,279

The alternate forms: Freitág (7) are calculated separately.

Freitag (15) may also be a first name.

Freitag Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

(German) Descendant of Freitag, the name sometimes given to one born on Friday.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

User-submitted Reference

Freitag, in German, means Friday. In Brazil it began to be used as a surname with the German immigration in the twentieth century.

- tamara.freitag

Freitag Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Freitag Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Freitag (Arabic: فريتاج) occurs most in Germany. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Freitág. Click here for further potential spellings of Freitag.

How Common Is The Last Name Freitag? popularity and diffusion

Freitag is the 12,264th most widely held surname globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 159,065 people. The last name is primarily found in Europe, where 77 percent of Freitag live; 74 percent live in Western Europe and 74 percent live in Germanic Europe. It is also the 2,900,335th most common first name globally. It is borne by 15 people.

This surname is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is borne by 31,593 people, or 1 in 2,548. In Germany Freitag is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 26 percent reside, Lower Saxony, where 8 percent reside and Bavaria, where 8 percent reside. Without taking into account Germany this last name exists in 70 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 14 percent reside and Brazil, where 5 percent reside.

Freitag Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Freitag has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Freitag last name expanded 1,676 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 946 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Freitag Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States Freitag are 13.61% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 60.38% being registered with the political party.

The amount Freitag earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 14.58% less than the national average, earning 295,613 kr per year; in Peru they earn 909.97% more than the national average, earning S/. 195,782 per year; in South Africa they earn 70.09% more than the national average, earning R 404,196 per year; in Colombia they earn 4.92% less than the national average, earning $21,584,400 COP per year; in United States they earn 5.26% more than the national average, earning $45,420 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6.08% more than the national average, earning $52,703 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Freitag Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Freitag in the Arabic language
فريتاجfrytaj-

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