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English
Etymology
From Galician Freire.
Proper noun
Freire (plural Freires)
- A surname from Spanish .
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Freire is the 12514th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2477 individuals. Freire is most common among Hispanic/Latino (66.49%) and White (30.36%) individuals.
Anagrams
Galician
Etymology
From freire (“friar”), from Old Occitan fraire.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Freire m
- a surname
References
- “Freire” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Freire”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Galician Freire, from freire (“friar”), from Old Occitan fraire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɾeiɾe/
- Rhymes: -eiɾe
- Syllabification: Frei‧re
Proper noun
Freire m or f by sense
- a surname from Galician