English (chiefly south and southwestern England): variant of
Free, from the Old English byform frig.English:
nickname for a small person, from Middle English fry ‘small
person’, ‘child’, ‘offspring’ (Old Norse frjó ‘seed’).Americanized spelling of German Frei,
Frey.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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