Name
Freeman
Meaning
Freeman is a masculine name of English origin meaning “a free man”.
Freeman began as a medieval English status surname for a man who was not bound to a lord, and it moved into first-name use most powerfully among formerly enslaved Americans after emancipation, when the name was a declaration. Physicist Freeman Dyson gave it a scientific afterlife.
Ranked in the US boys' top 1000 from the 1880s into the 1930s.
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Freeman is a masculine name of English origin meaning “a free man”. Freeman began as a medieval English status surname for a man who was not bound to a lord, and it moved into first-name use most powerfully among formerly enslaved Americans after emancipation, when the name was a declaration.
Freeman is traditionally a masculine (boy) name. Ranked in the US boys' top 1000 from the 1880s into the 1930s.
The name Freeman comes from English. Freeman began as a medieval English status surname for a man who was not bound to a lord, and it moved into first-name use most powerfully among formerly enslaved Americans after emancipation, when the name was a declaration. Physicist Freeman Dyson gave it a scientific afterlife.
Freeman is pronounced FREE-man.
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