Fräulein
given name · Latin script
Meaning: young lady, miss (A Frequency Dictionary of German)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fräulein is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 31Mfew recordsas Fraeulein(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 250Kfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fräulein itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Austria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)young lady, miss
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fräulein counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Fräulein is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, diminutive of Frau (but not freely applicable)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, jaunkundze
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fräulein mean, and where does it come from?
- young lady, miss Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- Is Fräulein a male or female name?
- Fräulein is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Fräulein?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 people named Fräulein in Austria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fräulein. After it come Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Fräulein?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 people in Austria have Fräulein as their first given name, about 1 in 249 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Fräulein?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fr%C3%A4uleinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Fräulein”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.