Frid
title: "Frid" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["surnames"] topic_path: "general/surnames" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frid" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Frid is a Scandinavian (Norse) surname, derived from the name of the god Frey (Freyr) - same derivation as the day of the week (Tuesday -Tws Norse god of the sea, Wednesday -Wodin/Odin father of the gods, Thursday - Thor's day and Fri day - Freyr) (Names of the days of the week).
Frid is often translated from modern Swedish as meaning peace.
Frid features in the sagas as the name of a Valkyrie and the modern (English) spelling may derive from the old Norse rendering of Frið.
It may refer to:
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Amelia Frid (born 1975), an Australian actress
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Egon Frid (born 1957), Swedish politician
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Géza Frid (1904–1989), a Hungarian/Dutch composer and pianist
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Grigory Frid (1915–2012), a Russian composer
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Jonathan Frid (1924–2012), a Canadian actor
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Tage Frid (1915–2004), a Danish born American woodworker
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Valeri Frid (1922–1998), a Soviet scriptwriter ; also
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Frid Ingulstad (born 1935), a Norwegian novelist
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Anni-Frid Lyngstad (born 1945), a Norwegian-Swedish singer, member of ABBA
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