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Around the globe, Fra (Fra , Frate , フラ , and others...) is quite a rare gender-neutral first name. The first name Fra is habitual in Italy, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, Albania, where it is quite a rare male name, and Egypt, where it is a rare gender-neutral name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Italy, Egypt, and Indonesia. Likewise, Fra is the last name as well as the forename.
Fra is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Fra Pavel , character in The Golden Compass; Fra Cristoforo , character in The Betrothed; Fra Angelico , the operatic character in the opera Die verschenkte Frau; Fra Diavolo , the operatic character in the opera Fra Diavolo and Fra Melitone , the operatic character in the opera La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi; a Franciscan, among other works.