Fröde
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fröde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Fróði, a byname from fróðr (“wise”). Cognate with English Frodo.
- NONorway1 in 507(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 5.3K
- DEGermany≈1 in 438K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 507 (inferred from the name graph)
10,785 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Frode in NO Norway, DK Denmark, SE Sweden and 2 more.
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)
- Old NorseFróði(measured from records)
- Old Norse rootfróðr“wise”(measured from records)
From Old Norse Fróði, a byname from fróðr (“wise”). Cognate with English Frodo.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fröde 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.
10,785 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fröde mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Fróði, a byname from fróðr (“wise”). Cognate with English Frodo. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- In which country does Fröde have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Fröde, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frode.
- Where is Fröde most common?
- Fröde is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 507 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fröde?
- In Norway, the national register counted 10,785 people named Fröde in 2025, about 1 in 507 residents.
- How common is Fröde compared with other names?
- In Norway, Fröde is the 40th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
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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%B6deThe 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, “Fröde” — the 40th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.