Fram
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE fram ‘bold, active, strong’; also used as a Christian name; first attested Geoffrey Frame 1196 P (Norfolk/Suffolk)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɹæm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fram is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 725K(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 197K
- CACanada≈1 in 286K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 197K (inferred from the name graph)
≈520 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE fram ‘bold, active, strong’; also used as a Christian name; first attested Geoffrey Frame 1196 P (Norfolk/Suffolk)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fram 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Fram | 1 |
| US United States | 459 | 1 in 725K | 459 | Fram | 166 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 343K | — | Fram | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Fram | 52 |
| MA Morocco | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 396K | — | Fram | 5 |
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. 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)
Fram 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 English, Initialism of ferroelectric random access memory.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, frum fram (noise, uproar)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌼
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, forth, forward, out
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, forth, forward
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jason Framb. 1995CACanadian ice hockey player
- Miranda FramUSresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-6337-059X
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 459 | #46,404 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 444 | #45,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 424 | #52,802 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Fram mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE fram ‘bold, active, strong’; also used as a Christian name; first attested Geoffrey Frame 1196 P (Norfolk/Suffolk) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Fram?
- A machine transcription gives /fɹæm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fram have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 516 people named Fram in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fram.
- How common is the name Fram?
- In the United States, the national register counted 459 people named Fram in 2010, about 1 in 725 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/framThe 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, “Fram”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.