Fronda
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈfɾonda/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Fronda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish fronda (“frond”).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 100Kfew records
- ITItaly≈1 in 150Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Spanish fronda (“frond”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fronda 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 | #457 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Fronda | 77 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Fronda | 6 |
| US United States | — | 413 | 1 in 805K | 460 | Fronda | 134 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 146K | listed | Fronda | 22 |
| RE Réunion | #273 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Fronda | 1 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Fronda | 4 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)Fronda is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, revolt arising within an organization or against a state authority
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of fronder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, frond (leaf of a fern)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, leafy branch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Neprincipiāla opozīcija; opozīcija aiz personiskiem vai frakcionāriem motīviem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Pret absolūtismu vērsta sociāli politiska kustība Francijā 17. gs. vidū
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Eugenio Frondab. 1869ITItalian politician (1869-1926)
- Frondab. 1981SESwedish rapper
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 460 | #49,411 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 413 | #50,564 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 340 | #56,246 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Fronda mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish fronda (“frond”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Fronda?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈfɾonda/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /fɾõdɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Fronda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Fronda in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fronda.
- How common is the name Fronda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 413 people named Fronda in 2010, about 1 in 805 thousand residents.
- How common is Fronda compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Fronda is the 457th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frondaThe 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, “Fronda” — the 457th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.