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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : status name of the feudal system denoting a free man, as opposed to a bondsman, from an inflected form of Middle High German vrī ‘free’.
  • German : archaic occupational name, from Middle High German, Middle Low German vrier, vriger, denoting a man who had the ceremonial duty of asking guests to a wedding.

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