as a Last Name
- 2,476
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Freire
Meaning & Origins
Portuguese and Galician: occupational name for a friar, or a nickname for a pious person or someone employed at a monastery, from Latin frater ‘brother’.
| 12,465th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,476
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Freire per capita
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