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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Freyde ‘joy’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish freyd ‘joy’ + man ‘man’.
  • Altered spelling of German Friedmann (see Friedman).

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