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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a personal name composed of the Germanic elements frid, fred ‘peace’ + rīc ‘power’. The name was borne by a canonized 9th-century bishop of Utrecht, and was a hereditary name among the Hohenstaufen ruling family; hence its popularity in central Europe.

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