Frana

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Frana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 389K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 844K
  • CZCzechia1 in 52K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

544 people

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

Frana 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.

Where Frana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil5441 in 389K544Frana47
US United States3941 in 844K438Frana27
IT Italy≈230 est.≈1 in 276Klisted—3
CZ Czechia2071 in 52K207——
PT Portugal≈88 est.≈1 in 117K—Frana6
HR Croatia≈30 est.≈1 in 141K350——

544 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Frana is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Franae, Franä, Frána, Fraňa, Fráňa

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Франа

  • Czech surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Fráňa, Frána, Fraňa

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Franã, Fraña, Fráňa, Frána

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Fráňa, Frána, Frânâ

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Frána

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Franã, Fráňa, Frána

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Frana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, landslide, landslip

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Francijā, Burgundijas-Franškontē (līdz 2016. g. - Franškontē) reģiona Dū departamentā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

12001400160018002000Maître Frana, b. 1350Lorenzo Frana, b. 1926Javier Frana, b. 1966Pavel Frana, b. 1977

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Frana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—544#15,777
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020438#51,363
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000416#47,838
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010394#52,619
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202132#17,586
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202131—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

In which country does Frana have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 544 people named Frana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frana.
Where is Frana most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Frana is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 52 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Frana?
In Brazil, the national register counted 544 people named Frana, about 1 in 389 thousand residents.

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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, “Frana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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