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The fry Surname

fry Name Meaning and History

  1. English (chiefly south and southwestern England): variant of Free, from the Old English byform frig.
  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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fry Families in the US in 1920
Number of fry families
 707-1411
 236-706		 1-235
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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