Friedlein Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Friedlein is a spelling of the German surname Fried. Its meaning, shared with Fried, is “A descendant of Fried, from Friedrich”.

• Friedlein adds -lein to the root of Fried, a common way of forming related surnames.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• The same family of names includes Friede, Friedl and Friedel.
• Friedlein ranked 81,458 in the 2010 US Census, with 232 people answering to the name. That puts it inside the top 100,000 US surnames.

Friedlein coat of arms

Arms linked to Fried and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Friedlein family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.