Fried (surname)

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Fried or Freid is a Yiddish-language surname that is exclusively Ashkenazic Jewish [1] and also a German-language surname of German ancestry. [2]

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  1. Meaning that it does not extend to non-Ashkenazic Jews unless the said non-Ashkenazim are descended from Ashkenazim.
  2. Ancestry.com Fried