Frith
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Peace; security (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/fɹɪθ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Frith is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
How to pronounce Frith
- English:/fɹɪθ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)soft mutation of brith
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Frith is read
(measured from records)Frith is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English87%
Peace; security.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
A different form of Firth.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Welsh6.9%
soft mutation of brith
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Frith 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 Scottish Gaelic, little, small
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmq-oda, peace
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)- William Powell Frithb. 1819GBEnglish painter (1819-1909)
- Uta Frithb. 1941DEGerman developmental psychologist
- Fred Frithb. 1949GBEnglish musician, composer and improvisor
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Frith come from?
- soft mutation of brith Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Frith?
- In the etymology graph, Frieden and Friede are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Frith?
- In English /fɹɪθ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Frith mean?
- In English, Peace; security.
- In which country does Frith have the most bearers?
- Frith is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Frith?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frithThe 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, “Frith”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.