Fron

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Fron is a surname, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A small village in Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0965).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M◐
  • PLPoland1 in 70K
  • NONorway1 in 249K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.1K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
113 ●

3.2K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 70K ◐

Poland

Meaning & origin●

A small village in Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0965).

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.

Where Fron is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland544△1 rec.1 in 70K544—1
US United States2812.7K rec.1 in 1.2M333Fron113
DE Germany150139 rec.—listedFron34
BR Brazil108—1 in 2M108——
ES Spain76△6 rec.1 in 658K76Fron7
GB United Kingdom7290 rec.——Fron14
CA Canada7080 rec.——Fron16
RU Russia4446 rec.——Fron3
FR France28△1 rec.1 in 2.4M28—1
IN India2728 rec.—5Fron5
NO Norway22—1 in 249K22——
SE Sweden19△2 rec.1 in 537K19—2

Roughly 544 people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 70K). 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●

  • English2.9K39%
  • Polish2.5K33%
  • French97913%
  • Spanish3575%
  • German2073%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,88739%
Polish2,47933%
French97913%
Spanish3575%
German2073%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Fron is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname2.6K records spelled Fron5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Czech

    Also written Froń

  • French surname1.1K records spelled Fron3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Froń

  • Spanish surname530 records spelled Fron4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Froń

  • a separate surname76 records spelled Fron3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Frō̜n, Froń

  • Norwegian surname67 records spelled Fron5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Danish

    Also written Froń

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Fron is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Welsh, soft mutation of bron

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pro, forehead

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In vo, wrinkle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, socage

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, throne

    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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Fron in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18914
19016
191110
192113
193110
194118
195115
196123
197125
198116
199128

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1800185019001950Émile Fron, b. 1836Georges Fron, b. 1870Karel Fron, b. 1947

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 29 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Fron
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.2K#605
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000333#57,252
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020302#69,958
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010281#69,793
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2021137—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2024135—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2022129—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2023121—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2025116—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—108#59,814
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2016103—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)201899—

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 90 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fron?
We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Fron (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Fron have the most bearers?
We estimate about 544 people bear Fron in Poland, more than in any other country in our records.
Where is Fron most common?
Fron is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 70 thousand people carrying it.
What does the name Fron mean?
Recorded meaning: A small village in Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0965).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Fron”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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