Fràu

surname · Latin script

Fràu is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Italy. Recorded meaning: Variante di Fabbri.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly
  • ESSpain

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
102 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Frau in ES Spain, IT Italy.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Variante di Fabbri

Cited for this meaning 3

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • A Frequency Dictionary of German
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Fràu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Fràu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—listedFrau102
ES Spain—1.5KFrau20
AR Argentina—619——
UY Uruguay—168——
FR France—117—2

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Fràu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Austria, Spain, Switzerland

    Languages: German, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Frau, Fräu, Fraeu, Frâu, Fraú

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Fràu under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Fràu mean, and where does it come from?
Variante di Fabbri Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and A Frequency Dictionary of German and 1 other source.
In which country does Fràu have the most bearers?
Fràu is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled frau.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fràu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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