Fra
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fʀa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fra is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 301K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 18K
- DEGermany≈1 in 114K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Frae in US United States, Frä in DE Germany, Frà in IT Italy and Frã in CH Switzerland.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fra 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Frà | 38 |
| DE Germany | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Frä | 41 |
| FR France | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 301K | 21 | Fra | 2 |
| US United States | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 107 | FRae | 96 |
| BR Brazil | 89 | 1 in 2.4M | 397 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 166K | 7 | Frã | 8 |
| IS Iceland | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 194K | listed | — | — |
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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Fra is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, a kind of creeper or climber, the strong filaments or fibres of which are separated or untwisted by turning (wokylm fra) and used as string in thatching houses, in wattling or similar work
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Spanish, initialism of fracaso renal agudo, acute renal failure (ARF)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2/T & ISO 639-3 language code for French.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, initialism of Försvarets Radioanstalt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A title of a friar or monk: brother.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, woman, lady
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lino Del Frab. 1929ITItalian film director and screenwriter (1927–1997)
- Fra Paalmanb. 1945NLartist (1945-2020)
- Fra McCannb. 1953GBNorthern Irish politician (born 1953)
- Urbano Fra Paleob. 1961ESSpanish geographer
- Patricia Fra Lópezb. 1964ESresearcher
- Giovanna Frab. 1967ITItalian artist
- Daniela Frab. 2000ESSpanish athlete
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 397 | #20,872 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 281 | #20,574 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 193 | #12,002 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 108 | #21,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 107 | #152,628 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 96 | #46,856 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 89 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 52 | #44,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 45 | #46,856 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #44,732 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 33 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Fra?
- A machine transcription gives /fʀa/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Fra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Fra in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frà.
- How common is the name Fra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Fra in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Fra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fraThe 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, “Fra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.