Fraté
surname · Latin script
Fraté is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 437 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Late Latin fratre (810-814 AD or earlier), from Latin frāter, either directly from the nominative form or through a Vulgar Latin derivative of the accusative frātrem (with loss of secon.
- ARArgentina1 in 232K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 681K
- USUnited States1 in 761K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 232K (inferred from the name graph)
437 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Frate in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium.
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)- Late Latinfratre810-814 AD or earlier(measured from records)
- Latinfrāter(measured from records)
- Proto-Italic*frātēr(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰréh₂tēr(measured from records)
Inherited from Late Latin fratre (810-814 AD or earlier), from Latin frāter, either directly from the nominative form or through a Vulgar Latin derivative of the accusative frātrem (with loss of second -r from a form *fratre), from Proto-Italic *frātēr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Compare Aromanian frati.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Fraté is found
(measured from records)Fraté 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.
437 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fraté mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Late Latin fratre (810-814 AD or earlier), from Latin frāter, either directly from the nominative form or through a Vulgar Latin derivative of the accusative frātrem (with loss of secon… Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fraté?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 437 people named Fraté, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frate. After it come Brazil, Argentina, France and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Fraté most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fraté is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 232 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fraté?
- In the United States, the national register counted 437 people named Fraté in 2010, about 1 in 761 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frat%C3%A9The 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, “Fraté” — ranked 43629th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.