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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English (chiefly south and southwestern England): variant of Free, from the Old English byform frīg.
  2. English: nickname for a small person, from Middle English fry ‘small person’, ‘child’, ‘offspring’ (Old Norse frjó ‘seed’).
  3. Americanized spelling of German Frei, Frey.