From
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
From is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ému ; émotion, forte impression.
- USUnited States1 in 751K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 6.3K
- DKDenmark1 in 7.1K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,373 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ému ; émotion, forte impression
Cited for this meaning 2
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)From 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.
1,373 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Martin Severin Fromb. 1828DKDanish chess master (1828–1895)
- Gideon Fromb. 1906SESwedish politician (1906–1968)
- Henry Fromb. 1926DKDanish footballer (1926-1990)
- Harry Fromb. 1934RORomanian film director (1934-1996)
- Al Fromb. 1943USAmerican political strategist (born 1943)
- Claus Fromb. 1945Danish handball player
- Isak Fromb. 1967SESwedish politician
- Naftali Fromb. 1969ILIsraeli writer
- Mathias Fromb. 1997DKDanish ice hockey player
- Andreas FromSwedish local politician
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
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.4K | #738 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 879 | #2,121 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 827 | #481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 568 | #41,313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 551 | #37,881 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 443 | #47,791 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 362 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 200 | #7,938 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 90 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #3,426 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 From mean, and where does it come from?
- ému ; émotion, forte impression Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does From have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named From, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is From most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, From is densest in Finland — about 1 in 6.3 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name From?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,373 people named From, about 1 in 7.4 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fromThe 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, “From”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.