Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a person of a cheerful disposition, from Middle High German vröude, vreude ‘joy’, German Freud(e). As a Jewish name it can also be an ornamental name.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish personal name Freyde meaning ‘joy’.