Fraga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fraga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as cliff.
- UYUruguay1 in 899(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.3K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 5.2K
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)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- 1 in 899 (inferred from the name graph)
90,437 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A small town by the river Cinca in Bajo Cinca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain, whose inhabitants speak Fragatí, a distinct local dialect of Catalan.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fraga is read(measured from records)
Fraga 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.
- Portuguese59%
cliff
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fraga in Spanish.
- English10%
A small town by the river Cinca in Bajo Cinca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain, whose inhabitants speak Fragatí, a distinct local dialect of Catalan.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)
Fraga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #199 | 90,437 | 1 in 2.3K | 90K | Fraga | 176 |
| ES Spain | #632 | 8,197 | 1 in 6.1K | 8.2K | Fraga | 122 |
| US United States | — | 4,998 | 1 in 67K | 5K | Fraga | 246 |
| AR Argentina | #879 | 4,316 | 1 in 11K | 4.3K | Fraga | 91 |
| UY Uruguay | #166 | 3,770 | 1 in 899 | 3.8K | Fraga | 49 |
| PT Portugal | #290 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Fraga | 81 |
90,437 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Fraga is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Fraga, Spain
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, synonym of fragola (“strawberry”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, an isolated forest with deciduous trees, herbs, mosses, lichens and a diverse fauna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, Fraga (a town in Bajo Cinca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain)
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)
- Augusto Fragab. 1910PTPortuguese filmmaker (1910–2000)
- Manuel Fragab. 1922ESSpanish politician (1922–2012)
- Carmen Fraga Estévezb. 1948ESpolitician
- Jorge Larrañagab. 1956UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan politician and lawyer (1956–2021)
- Denise Fragab. 1965BRBrazilian actress
- Almir de Souza Fragab. 1969BRBrazilian association football player
- Lucenzob. 1983FRnot in their usual nameFrench-Portuguese singer and record producer
- Pedro Fragab. 1983PTPortuguese rower
- Edimar Curitiba Fragab. 1986BRBrazilian footballer
- Igor Fragab. 1998BRBrazilian racing driver
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 21 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 90K | #299 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.2K | #681 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8.2K | #681 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5K | #6,746 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.6K | #6,990 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,888 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.8K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Fraga come from?
- A small town by the river Cinca in Bajo Cinca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain, whose inhabitants speak Fragatí, a distinct local dialect of Catalan. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Fraga mean?
- In Portuguese, cliff
- In which country does Fraga have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 90 thousand people named Fraga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fraga.
- Where is Fraga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fraga is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 899 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fraga?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 90,437 people named Fraga, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Fraga compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Fraga is the 199th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fragaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Fraga” — the 199th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.