
Free/Frei Family 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’). Irish: variant of Freeman . Americanized form of Swiss German and German Frei and Frey . North German: nickname from a variant of Middle Low German wrēd ‘wild fierce angry’. Americanized form ...