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FREE : This last name is indexed 56,722 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FREE : 1: English: nickname or status name from Middle English fre ‘free’ (Old English frēo) with reference to either tenurial status (‘free born’) or to character (‘noble generous open-handed’).2: Irish: variant of Freeman.4: Americanized form of Swiss German and German Frei and Frey.3: North German: nickname from a variant of Middle Low German wrēd ‘wild fierce angry’.5: Americanized form of Ferree or Ferrée a surname of French origin.
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