Friede
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ahd. fridu, nd. vrede 'peace, protection, safety'; also influenced by a stem related to nhd
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɹid/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Friede is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 162K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 165K
- PLPoland1 in 301K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 162K (inferred from the name graph)
426 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ahd. fridu, nd. vrede 'peace, protection, safety'; also influenced by a stem related to nhd. frech.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Friede counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 426 | 1 in 781K | 482 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 127 | 1 in 301K | 67 | Friede | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | 66 | 1 in 162K | 67 | Friede | 13 |
| SE Sweden | 62 | 1 in 165K | 62 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 41 | 1 in 5.2M | 41 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 24 | — | — |
426 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Friede is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from OHG/ MHG vride, vrede ‘peace, protected place’; also short for names with Frid- ‘peace’
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Short form of names beginning with Fried ‘peace’. Also: Frieda.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, peace
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Friede < germ. *friþu ‚Friede‘; 836 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname aus der Kurzform des Rufnamens Friede(n); 836 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emil Friedeb. 1857DEGerman architect (1857-1947)
- Oscar Friedeb. 1881USAmerican tug of war competitor (1881–1943)
- Hans Friedeb. 1896DEGerman politician (1896-1978)
- Dieter Friedeb. 1938DEGerman diplomat
- Mike Friedeb. 1957USAmerican football player (born 1957)
- Tim Friedeb. 1971DEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-5347-7441
- Jaromír Friedeb. 1975CZCzech cyclist
- Franciska Friedeb. 1988DEGerman actress
- Sidney Friedeb. 1998DEfootball player and livestreamer
- John FriedeAmerican art collector and philanthropist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 482 | #42,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 471 | #48,441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 426 | #49,365 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 67 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 67 | #40,646 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 67 | #9,320 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 66 | #23,747 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 62 | #10,626 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 60 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 60 | #43,619 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #120,411 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Friede come from?
- from ahd. fridu, nd. vrede 'peace, protection, safety'; also influenced by a stem related to nhd. frech. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Friede?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɹid/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Friede mean?
- Recorded meaning: from ahd. fridu, nd. vrede 'peace, protection, safety'; also influenced by a stem related to nhd.
- What are other forms of the name Friede?
- In the etymology graph, Fried, Frei and Frith are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Friede have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 426 people named Friede, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Friede most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Friede is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 162 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Friede?
- In the United States, the national register counted 426 people named Friede in 2010, about 1 in 781 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/friedeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Friede”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.