Fro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From; away; back or backward (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/fɾo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Fro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 103K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 670Kfew records
- SESweden≈1 in 1.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fro itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Fro in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Froe in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NL Netherlands and Frö in AT Austria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Fro
- Spanish:/fɾo/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From; away; back or backward.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Fro is found
(measured from records)Fro 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 666K | — | Fro | 17 |
| FR France | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 955K | — | Fro | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 70 | 1 in 3M | 70 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | listed | Froe | 64 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Froe | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 631K | 5 | Froe | 11 |
| AT Austria | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 483K | — | Frö | 8 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Fro 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.
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Old French.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, second-person singular imperative of froen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, soft mutation of bro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nds (Germany), woman (female human)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, happy, carefree
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fro mean, and where does it come from?
- From; away; back or backward. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fro?
- In Spanish /fɾo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fro?
- Mondonomo estimates about 125 people named Fro in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fro. After it come France, Brazil, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Fro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fro is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 103 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fro?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 70 people named Fro, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Fro?
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/froThe 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, “Fro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.