Fre
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fre is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 3M(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 111K
- NLNetherlands1 in 213K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 111K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fré in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium, DE Germany.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 603K | — | Fré | 29 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Fre | 112 |
| BE Belgium | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 111K | 5 | Fré | 19 |
| IT Italy | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 611K | listed | — | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | 81 | 1 in 213K | 52 | Fré | 15 |
| SE Sweden | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 490K | 22 | — | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 510K | 11 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 450K | 20 | — | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fre 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, t;. [f^re, red. frefre] to call; to cite, summon: fre no bera, call him in or hither; mede nedin mefree no, I called him by his name; pr. 022, cf. hyia. — 2. to call, name, give a name to: wofre cyi don? what is this called? wofre no den? = nedih de den? cf. to dMi'^ pr. 122.570. 1623.1872. 2S31.3460.3o03. — 3. fre dwom, losing ■= to dwom ; to lead the choir
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In cdo, brigade, (géu-hud) to allay fever. to quench or allay thirst. amusement, diversion, (kah-diéw)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In frp, alternative form of fromâjo (“cheese”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, abbreviation of fredag (“Friday”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2/B language code for French.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, free, independent, unrestricted:
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 30 | #15,660 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,394 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #42,056 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,043 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 13 | #24,870 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #159,570 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Fre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 133 people named Fre in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fré.
- How common is the name Fre?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 81 people named Fre, about 1 in 213 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fre?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/freThe 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, “Fre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.