Frohn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OHG fröno 'belonging to the lord'; also used for servile/official occupations
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈfɹɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Frohn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 953K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 91K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)from OHG fröno 'belonging to the lord'; also used for servile/official occupations
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world
(measured from records)Frohn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Frohn | 94 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Frohn | 1 |
| US United States | 349 | 1 in 953K | 349 | Frohn | 144 |
| NL Netherlands | 142 | 1 in 122K | 142 | Frohn | 15 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 411K | — | Frohn | 1 |
| PL Poland | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 405K | — | Frohn | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 45 | 1 in 130K | 45 | — | — |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Frohn 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 German, Berufsname für den Gerichtsdiener; aus mhd. vrōn(e), mnd. vrone. Belege: Fro(h)n 43+829, Frohn(e/s) 336+47.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname: Frondiener/Amtsdiener; Bearer count 1255.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)- Robert Frohnb. 1913DEGerman historian
- Werner Frohnb. 1929DEGerman manager and politician
- Joachim Frohnb. 1941DEDr. rer. pol. Freie Universität Berlin 1969
- Birgit Frohnb. 19671967-
- Victoria Frohnb. 1996DEGerman association football 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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 349 | #58,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 339 | #63,550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 315 | #59,916 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 142 | #14,173 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 45 | #11,547 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Frohn mean, and where does it come from?
- from OHG fröno 'belonging to the lord'; also used for servile/official occupations Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Frohn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɹɑn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Frohn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Frohn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frohn.
- How common is the name Frohn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 349 people named Frohn in 2010, about 1 in 953 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Frohn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frohnThe 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, “Frohn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.