When William George Freed was born on 11 October 1922, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Horace Diston Freed, was 31 and his mother, Anna Nidig MacAdams, was 26. He had at least 1 son with Ada Gorman. He died on 19 January 1977, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Feasterville, Southampton Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States.
Jewish (American): variant of Fried 1.
Americanized form of German Fried 2. Compare Fread .
English: habitational name from Middle English frede, fride, frith, friht ‘wood, woodland’. These are different forms of Old English firhthe, (ge)fyrhthe, ferhthe. Compare Firth , Frith , and Frick .
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