Frasier
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Frasier is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cocos (Keeling) Islands it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): London; Caernarvons. see Fraser .
- USUnited States1 in 3.6K◐
- CACanada1 in 59K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 118K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈97K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 315 ●
- 1 in 241 ◐
across 17 countries
recorded for this name
67K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fraser in TH Thailand, LA Laos.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Main GB Location (1881): London; Caernarvons. see Fraser .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 92,152 | 59K rec. | 1 in 3.6K | 92K | Frasier | 315 |
| GY Guyana | — | 3,119△ | 91 rec. | 1 in 241 | 3.1K | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,969 | 2.1K rec. | — | 52 | Frasier | 43 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,263 | 1.3K rec. | — | 2 | Frasier | 34 |
| AU Australia | — | 494 | 531 rec. | — | 4 | Frasier | 16 |
| TH Thailand | — | 440 | 446 rec. | — | #920,226 | Fraser | 48 |
| GD Grenada | — | 289 | 359 rec. | 1 in 391 | 289 | — | 1 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 252 | — | 1 in 402 | 252 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 229△ | 91 rec. | 1 in 218K | 229 | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | 227 | 235 rec. | — | — | Frasier | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 191 | — | 1 in 238K | 191 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 190 | 170 rec. | 1 in 91K | 190 | Frasier | 7 |
Roughly 92K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 3.6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English65K82%
- 2.9K4%
- French2.3K3%
- Spanish2.1K3%
- Chinese8001%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 64,568 | 82% |
| 2,926 | 4% | |
| French | 2,317 | 3% |
| Spanish | 2,124 | 3% |
| Chinese | 800 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 16 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 13 years between 1990–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- S. Douglas Frasierb. 1932USAmerican physician
- Anne Frasierb. 1954USAmerican writer
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●
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.1K | #4,376 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.9K | #4,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.6K | #4,556 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 114 | #49,660 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 12 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #49,660 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 8 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 43 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Frasier?
- We estimate roughly 97 thousand people bear Frasier (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
- In which country does Frasier have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 92 thousand people bear Frasier in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled frasier.
- Where is Frasier most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Frasier is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 241 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Frasier compared with other names?
- In Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Frasier is the 2nd most common surname of 402 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Frasier mean?
- Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): London; Caernarvons. see Fraser .
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Frasier” — the 2nd most common surname in Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.