Froilán
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germánico: de fraujis "amo, señor" + sufijo diminutivo -ila
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɾoilan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Froilán is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 5.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.6K
- VEVenezuela1 in 8.4K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Froilan in PE Peru, PH Philippines, AR Argentina and 3 more.
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)
Germánico: de fraujis "amo, señor" + sufijo diminutivo -ila.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Froilán 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #973 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 18K | Froilan | 78 |
| PE Peru | #819 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Froilan | 44 |
| VE Venezuela | #944 | 3,410 | 1 in 8.4K | 3.4K | Froilan | 25 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Froilan | 25 |
| AR Argentina | #931 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 108 | Froilan | 39 |
| CR Costa Rica | #353 | 534 | 1 in 9.5K | 534 | Froilan | 17 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Froilán is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Amo y señor
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Froilanb. 833ESSpanish bishop (0833-0904)
- Froilán Largachab. 1823COColombian lawyer (1823-1892)
- Miguel L. Romuáldezb. 1881PHnot in their usual namePhilippine politician
- Froilán Varelab. 1891ARUruguayan actor
- José Froilán Gonzálezb. 1922ARArgentine racing driver
- Froilan Tenoriob. 1939USNorthern Mariana Islands politician (1939-2020)
- Froilán Escobarb. 1944CUWriter and journalist
- Froilan Saludarb. 1989PHformer WBO Flyweight title Challenger
- Felipe de Marichalar y Borbónb. 1998ESnot in their usual nameSpanish noble (born 1998); son of Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, and Don Jaime de Marichalar
- Froilán Díazb. 2006ARArgentine footballer (born 2006)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1951 | 33 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1964 | 30 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1957 | 30 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1949 | 30 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1952 | 29 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1950 | 28 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1971 | 27 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1983 | 25 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2006 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 3 | — |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Froilán?
- A machine transcription gives /fɾoilan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Froilán mean?
- Recorded meaning: Germánico: de fraujis "amo, señor" + sufijo diminutivo -ila.
- Is Froilán a male or female name?
- Froilán is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Froilán?
- In the etymology graph, Froilana and Froila are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Froilán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Froilán in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled froilan.
- How common is the name Froilán?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 3,410 people named Froilán, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Froilán compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Froilán is the 973rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Froilán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/froil%C3%A1nThe 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, “Froilán” — the 973rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.