

Fry Name Meaning
English (chiefly south and southwestern England): variant of Free, from the Old English byform frig. English: nickname for a small person, from Middle English fry ‘small person’, ‘child’, ‘offspring’ (Old Norse frjó ‘seed’).
Americanized spelling of German Frei, Frey.
John Fry (1609 - 1657) was one of the regicides who participated in the judgement and subsequent decapitation of King Charles I in 1649.
Descendants of his include the famed comedian, actor, author and much more; Mr Stephen Fry (1954 - ) as well as the great American Pioneer and Explorer Richard Amherst Fry (1838 - 1898)