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The freeman Surname

freeman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Free.
  2. Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery).
  3. In New England, an English equivalent of French Foissy (see Foisy).
  4. Translation of German Freimann (see Freiman).

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Distribution of freeman Families in the US in 1920
Number of freeman families
 759-1516
 254-758
 1-253
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