Frandsen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈfɹændsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Frandsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 712(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 121K
- AXÅland Islands≈1 in 12K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- 1 in 712 (inferred from the name graph)
8,243 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frandsen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #66 | 8,243 | 1 in 712 | 8.2K | Frandsen | 138 |
| US United States | — | 2,750 | 1 in 121K | 2.8K | Frandsen | 154 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 308K | — | Frandsen | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Frandsen | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | 272 | 1 in 20K | 272 | Frandsen | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 169 | 1 in 60K | 169 | Frandsen | 17 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Frandsen | 2 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Frandsen | 2 |
8,243 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rasmus Frandsenb. 1886DKDanish rower (1886-1974)
- Aage Frandsenb. 1890DKgymnast (1890–1968)
- John Frandsenb. 1918DKDanish conductor
- Erik A. Frandsenb. 1957DKDanish painter (born 1957)
- Anders Frandsenb. 1960DKDanish singer (1960-2012)
- Per Frandsenb. 1970DKDanish footballer
- Thomas Frandsenb. 1976DKDanish footballer
- Scott Frandsenb. 1980CACanadian rower
- Kevin Frandsenb. 1982USAmerican baseball second baseman
- Sebastian Frandsenb. 1994DKDanish handball player
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8.2K | #49 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,456 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,227 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,538 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 272 | #5,708 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 169 | #4,799 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- What does the name Frandsen mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Frandsen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɹændsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Frandsen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 8.2 thousand people named Frandsen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frandsen.
- Where is Frandsen most common?
- Frandsen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 712 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Frandsen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 8,243 people named Frandsen, about 1 in 712 residents.
- How common is Frandsen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Frandsen is the 66th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frandsenThe 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, “Frandsen” — the 66th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.