Fretty

surname · Latin script

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

Fretty is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

196 people, 2010

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fretty 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 Fretty is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1961 in 1.7M196Fretty13
EE Estonia——listed——

196 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)

Fretty is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Frêtty

25 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Fretty
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010196#93,513
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000190#90,252
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020182#104,723
US United Stateswru 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

What does the name Fretty mean, and where does it come from?
Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Fretty?
In the etymology graph, Fret is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Fretty have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 196 people named Fretty, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fretty.
Where is Fretty most common?
Fretty is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Fretty?
In the United States, the national register counted 196 people named Fretty in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million 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, “Fretty”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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