Fribourg
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Fribourg, en Suisse, est à la fois le nom d’un chef-lieu de canton et d’un canton
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fribourg is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- CHSwitzerland
- BRBrazil
- PTPortugal
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Friburgo in BR Brazil.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Fribourg, en Suisse, est à la fois le nom d’un chef-lieu de canton et d’un canton. On y produit un fromage de lait de vache, à pâte cuite, très proche du gruyère. Le mot est mentionné par Littré mais comme variété de poire d’hiver.
Sources 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fribourg counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 27 | Friburgo | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | Fribourg | 2 |
| PT Portugal | — | — | Fribourg | 1 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | Fribourg | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | — | Fribourg | 4 |
| US United States | — | 111 | — | 8 |
| FR France | — | 69 | — | — |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Fribourg is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, city, Switzerland
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A canton of Switzerland. (the French name)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Fribourg (a city in Switzerland)
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)
- Georges André-Fribourgb. 1887FRFrench politician, writer, journalist and historian
- André Fribourg-Blancb. 1888FRFrench military physician (1888-1963)
- Michel Fribourgb. 1913BEBelgian-born Jewish-American billionaire businessman, the chairman and CEO of Continental Grain (1913 – 10 April 2001)
- Paul J. Fribourgb. 1950American businessman,CEO of Continental Grain (ContiGroup Companies) since 1976, sixth generation of the Fribourg family to lead the company
- Jacques Fribourgb. 1951FRFrench general practitioner (1951-2020)
- Françoise Fribourgb. 1955FRFrench politician
- Michaël Fribourgb. 1982FRFrench official
- Rene FribourgFRFrench businessman and art collector
- Cesar FribourgPEPeruvian engineer
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 111 | #148,665 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 108 | #151,532 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 69 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 35 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Fribourg mean?
- Recorded meaning: Fribourg, en Suisse, est à la fois le nom d’un chef-lieu de canton et d’un canton.
- In which country does Fribourg have the most bearers?
- Fribourg is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled friburgo.
What do you want to know about Fribourg?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fribourgThe 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, “Fribourg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.