Frode
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Frode is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse.
- NONorway1 in 507◐
- DKDenmark1 in 5.3K
- DEGermany1 in 68K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 105 ●
- 1 in 507 ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
12K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Froede in US United States, BR Brazil, CD Congo - Kinshasa and 3 more, Fröde in DE Germany, Фроде in UA Ukraine and Фруде in RU Russia.
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●
a male given name from Old Norse
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #71 | 10,785 | 8K rec. | 1 in 507 | 40K | Frode | 105 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,643 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Fröde | 38 |
| US United States | — | 1,617 | 1.5K rec. | — | listed | Froede | 77 |
| DK Denmark | #558 | 1,103△ | 198 rec. | 1 in 5.3K | 1.1K | Frode | 62 |
| SE Sweden | — | 527△ | 182 rec. | 1 in 19K | 527 | Frode | 21 |
| GH Ghana | #455 | 262 | 221 rec. | — | — | Frode | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 226 | 169 rec. | — | — | Frode | 32 |
| AU Australia | — | 93 | 93 rec. | — | — | Frode | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 29 | 38 rec. | — | — | Frode | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 27 | 20 rec. | — | — | Frode | 7 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 24 | 34 rec. | — | — | Frode | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 21 | 15 rec. | — | 6 | Frode | 5 |
Roughly 11K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 507). 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●
- Norwegian Bokmål40K63%
- Norwegian10K16%
- Danish5.1K8%
- English1.7K3%
- German5291%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 40,333 | 63% |
| Norwegian | 10,451 | 16% |
| Danish | 5,055 | 8% |
| English | 1,686 | 3% |
| German | 529 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Frode 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 Swedish, Frode är ett nordiskt namn med betydelsen ’kunskapsrik, klok’, bildat till ett forn västnordiskt adjektiv fróðr. Det är ett ursprungligt binamn (hinn fróði ’den kloke’). Namnet har tidigare varit vanligare i Norge.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Danish and Norwegian: from the Old Norse personal name FróÒoi , originally a byname for a wise or prudent person, from fróÒr knowing, learned, well-informed. The name was revived c. 1930 and has become increasingly popular since about 1970.
as a word
In Italian, a fraud, a deceit, a cheat, an adulteration
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 46 |
| 1946 | 64 |
| 1947 | 56 |
| 1948 | 49 |
| 1949 | 71 |
| 1950 | 82 |
| 1951 | 74 |
| 1952 | 87 |
| 1953 | 90 |
| 1954 | 112 |
| 1955 | 139 |
| 1956 | 137 |
| 1957 | 159 |
| 1958 | 193 |
| 1959 | 214 |
| 1960 | 266 |
| 1961 | 266 |
| 1962 | 306 |
| 1963 | 325 |
| 1964 | 343 |
| 1965 | 369 |
| 1966 | 391 |
| 1967 | 421 |
| 1968 | 476 |
| 1969 | 537 |
| 1970 | 528 |
| 1971 | 537 |
| 1972 | 553 |
| 1973 | 579 |
| 1974 | 619 |
| 1975 | 540 |
| 1976 | 482 |
| 1977 | 426 |
| 1978 | 343 |
| 1979 | 251 |
| 1980 | 218 |
| 1981 | 210 |
| 1982 | 144 |
| 1983 | 132 |
| 1984 | 107 |
| 1985 | 97 |
| 1986 | 74 |
| 1987 | 76 |
| 1988 | 69 |
| 1989 | 55 |
| 1990 | 43 |
| 1991 | 35 |
| 1992 | 31 |
| 1993 | 30 |
| 1994 | 35 |
| 1995 | 22 |
| 1996 | 21 |
| 1997 | 14 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 4 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2008 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 63 years between 1945–2008. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Frode Rinnanb. 1905NONorwegian architect and politician
- Frode Nilsenb. 1923NONorwegian diplomat
- Frode Thingnæsb. 1940NONorwegian jazz musician (1940-2012)
- Frode Gryttenb. 1960NONorwegian writer and journalist
- Frode Grodåsb. 1964NONorwegian association football player and coach
- Frode Olsenb. 1967NONorwegian footballer
- Frode Estilb. 1972NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Frode Andresenb. 1973NONorwegian biathlete
- Frode Johnsenb. 1974NONorwegian association football player
- Fróði Benjaminsenb. 1977FOnot in their usual nameFaroese footballer
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 22 sources across 11 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 200 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Frode?
- We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Frode (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Frode have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 11 thousand people bear Frode in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled frode.
- Where is Frode most common?
- Frode is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 507 people carrying it.
- How common is Frode compared with other names?
- In Norway, Frode is the 71st most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
- Is Frode a male or female name?
- Frode 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 does the name Frode mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse
Query this name via API
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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.
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, “Frode” — the 71st most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.