Last name: FRY
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FRY : This last name is indexed 259,140 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FRY : 1: English (mainly southern and southwestern): from Middle English frie ‘free’ (Old English frīo frīg) with reference either to rank or tenurial status (‘free-born’) or to character (‘generous open-handed’). It is synonymous with Free.2: Americanized form of German Frei or Frey or of the Dutch cognate Vrij.
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