Frisson
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: a shiver caused by cold or fever (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Frisson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country: 123 people, counted by Familienaam.be in 2008.
- BEBelgium1 in 95K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 669K
- BRBrazil1 in 10M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)
123 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a shiver caused by cold or fever
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Frisson is read
(measured from records)Frisson is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French56%
a shiver caused by cold or fever
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Frisson in Spanish.
- English9.1%
A sudden surge of excitement.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Frisson is found
(measured from records)Frisson 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 123 | 1 in 95K | 123 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 68 | 1 in 669K | 68 | Frisson | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 21 | 1 in 10M | 21 | Frisson | 9 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Frisson | 2 |
| FR France | — | — | 28 | — | — |
123 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Frisson mean, and where does it come from?
- a shiver caused by cold or fever Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Frisson?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 123 people named Frisson, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Argentina and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Frisson most common?
- Frisson is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 95 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Frisson?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 123 people named Frisson in 2008, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Frisson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frissonThe 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, “Frisson” — ranked 13144th in Belgium (Familienaam.be, 2008). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.