Frost Surname
Approximately 126,163 people bear this surname
Frost Surname Definition:
Personal or baptismal, 'the son of Frost,' evidently a popular Scandinavian personal name, answering later on to the fontal names Christmas, Nowell, or Midwinter. Winter (which see) we know was a personal name. To the same class belongs Snow, a great favourite, of Scandinavian parentage.
Read More About This SurnameFrost Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 56,144 | 1:6,456 | 758 |
| England | 29,262 | 1:1,904 | 228 |
| Australia | 10,930 | 1:2,470 | 325 |
| Germany | 6,607 | 1:12,185 | 1,567 |
| Canada | 4,970 | 1:7,414 | 1,091 |
| Denmark | 2,655 | 1:2,126 | 151 |
| Russia | 2,575 | 1:55,970 | 7,297 |
| South Africa | 2,457 | 1:22,050 | 2,795 |
| New Zealand | 2,375 | 1:1,907 | 256 |
| Poland | 993 | 1:38,277 | 5,983 |
| Sweden | 922 | 1:10,680 | 942 |
| Wales | 904 | 1:3,423 | 368 |
| Scotland | 536 | 1:9,988 | 1,383 |
| Ireland | 427 | 1:11,028 | 1,404 |
| France | 279 | 1:238,074 | 36,915 |
| Saudi Arabia | 278 | 1:110,992 | 14,774 |
| Iran | 231 | 1:332,392 | 22,681 |
| Japan | 221 | 1:578,481 | 15,574 |
| Northern Ireland | 218 | 1:8,463 | 1,411 |
| Israel | 212 | 1:40,366 | 5,515 |
| Belarus | 196 | 1:48,475 | 8,271 |
| Thailand | 192 | 1:367,908 | 64,616 |
| Norway | 188 | 1:27,353 | 3,743 |
| Brazil | 177 | 1:1,209,460 | 41,744 |
| Spain | 175 | 1:267,154 | 16,723 |
| Chile | 165 | 1:106,767 | 3,965 |
| Kazakhstan | 159 | 1:111,211 | 11,996 |
| Zimbabwe | 144 | 1:107,210 | 14,835 |
| Argentina | 97 | 1:440,654 | 33,272 |
| Singapore | 94 | 1:58,593 | 2,307 |
| Netherlands | 82 | 1:205,941 | 28,291 |
| Austria | 79 | 1:107,790 | 15,374 |
| Switzerland | 70 | 1:117,327 | 12,009 |
| Jamaica | 65 | 1:44,153 | 2,715 |
| Estonia | 58 | 1:22,790 | 4,104 |
| Czechia | 55 | 1:193,336 | 28,224 |
| Portugal | 47 | 1:221,665 | 8,706 |
| Uzbekistan | 44 | 1:702,935 | 14,831 |
| Latvia | 43 | 1:47,675 | 7,247 |
| Barbados | 42 | 1:6,844 | 646 |
| Finland | 39 | 1:140,941 | 13,163 |
| Mexico | 37 | 1:3,354,762 | 24,142 |
| Botswana | 33 | 1:66,271 | 11,607 |
| Dominican Republic | 31 | 1:336,546 | 11,471 |
| India | 31 | 1:24,744,045 | 333,161 |
| Qatar | 31 | 1:76,064 | 7,685 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| American Samoa | 28 | 1:1,991 | 404 |
| Jersey | 27 | 1:3,674 | 721 |
| Philippines | 26 | 1:3,893,778 | 155,597 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 26 | 1:52,461 | 4,513 |
| China | 25 | 1:54,692,863 | 2,965 |
| Italy | 25 | 1:2,446,268 | 94,040 |
| Ukraine | 25 | 1:1,820,908 | 133,658 |
| Luxembourg | 22 | 1:26,388 | 4,799 |
| Isle of Man | 20 | 1:4,291 | 899 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 20 | 1:298,633 | 26,437 |
| Malaysia | 20 | 1:1,474,711 | 61,770 |
| Bermuda | 19 | 1:3,436 | 515 |
| Hong Kong | 14 | 1:523,963 | 3,360 |
| Indonesia | 13 | 1:10,173,015 | 372,576 |
| Azerbaijan | 12 | 1:804,094 | 13,104 |
| Belize | 11 | 1:32,316 | 2,112 |
| Greenland | 11 | 1:5,125 | 525 |
| Moldova | 9 | 1:395,708 | 28,721 |
| Monaco | 9 | 1:4,118 | 434 |
| Transnistria | 9 | 1:52,744 | 7,681 |
| Belgium | 8 | 1:1,437,080 | 92,692 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Vietnam | 7 | 1:13,235,151 | 2,948 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 6 | 1:16,528 | 1,436 |
| Bahamas | 6 | 1:65,292 | 848 |
| Bulgaria | 6 | 1:1,163,151 | 37,744 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Paraguay | 6 | 1:1,206,124 | 10,500 |
| Turkey | 6 | 1:12,970,237 | 144,247 |
| Abkhazia | 5 | 1:48,573 | 2,868 |
| Afghanistan | 5 | 1:6,430,637 | 27,710 |
| Egypt | 5 | 1:18,387,151 | 62,330 |
| Taiwan | 5 | 1:4,688,949 | 27,695 |
| Bangladesh | 4 | 1:39,839,193 | 17,324 |
| Ecuador | 4 | 1:3,976,462 | 28,589 |
| Fiji | 4 | 1:223,598 | 2,635 |
| Malta | 4 | 1:107,568 | 1,849 |
| Samoa | 4 | 1:48,452 | 659 |
| South Korea | 4 | 1:12,810,064 | 2,073 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Armenia | 3 | 1:976,727 | 13,552 |
| Cambodia | 3 | 1:5,162,382 | 10,688 |
| Greece | 3 | 1:3,693,263 | 126,191 |
| Panama | 3 | 1:1,304,086 | 13,647 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Anguilla | 2 | 1:6,718 | 471 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Jordan | 2 | 1:4,421,218 | 22,351 |
| Lithuania | 2 | 1:1,517,294 | 35,813 |
| Montenegro | 2 | 1:319,782 | 7,691 |
| Oman | 2 | 1:1,843,986 | 9,590 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Slovakia | 2 | 1:2,668,225 | 118,680 |
| Sri Lanka | 2 | 1:10,404,280 | 18,448 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1:7,924,961 | 45,994 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 1:63,893 | 2,384 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Cook Islands | 1 | 1:18,179 | 1,485 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Myanmar | 1 | 1:51,937,985 | 2,166 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 1 | 1:54,580 | 1,498 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1:178,781 | 3,800 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Seychelles | 1 | 1:92,393 | 1,532 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 281 | 1:15,765 | 1,982 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 16,497 | 1:1,478 | 180 |
| Wales | 198 | 1:7,921 | 495 |
| Scotland | 143 | 1:26,176 | 2,359 |
| Jersey | 22 | 1:2,358 | 391 |
| Guernsey | 8 | 1:4,082 | 713 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 13,290 | 1:3,779 | 461 |
The alternate forms: Fröst (69) are calculated separately.
Frost (628) may also be a first name.
Frost Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Personal or baptismal, 'the son of Frost,' evidently a popular Scandinavian personal name, answering later on to the fontal names Christmas, Nowell, or Midwinter. Winter (which see) we know was a personal name. To the same class belongs Snow, a great favourite, of Scandinavian parentage.
Henry Frost, Norfolk, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Robert Frost, Lincolnshire, ibid.
John Frost, Close Rolls, 18 Edward I.
Johannes Froste, 1379: Poll Tax of Howdenshire.
Dionisius Frost 1370: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
A surname recorded in Ranchory-Devenick, 1819. It occers in the English Hundred Rolls, 1273.
(Teutonic) a name prob. given to one born at the time of Frost [Teutonic frost] Cp. Snow, Midwinter, Noel, &c.
Robert Frost.—Hundred Rolls
“Forest” in Old French (Forst).
(English, Welsh) Descendant of Frost (one born at the time of frost); a contraction of Forrest, q.v.; one cold in behavior or temperament.
Frost is the name of a dwarf in the Scandinavian mythology, and our nursery hero, "Jack Frost," as Mr. Ferguson suggests, may be derived from that source. One Alwin Forst was a tenant in co. Hants before Domesd., and his name by a slight and common transposition would become Frost. The H.R. have many Frosts without prefix.
(Welsh.) Ffrost, a brag.
1. From the surname Forest, Forrest. 2. From the German or Swiss name Fürst; from fürst, a prince. One Alwin Forst was a tenant in co. Hants before Domesday, and Frosti is the name of a dwarf in the Scandinavian mythology.
A location name in Devon Or from the Dutch, personal name.
The name of Frost has been established in Norfolk ever since the 13th century, when the Frosts resided here in numbers. In the 15th and 16th centuries Frost was a common name amongst the Norfolk clerics (Bl.). The name also occurs now in other parts of England, particularly in Derbyshire and Somerset. In the 13th century it not only characterised Norfolk but also Cambridgeshire and in a less degree Suffolk (H. R.).
User-submitted Reference
(French, German) This surname means 'dweller at the forest'. When Forst families came to America and England they changed their name from Forst to Frost.
- dinn315(English) A fair haired man, a cold hearted individual.
(Welsh) A brag.
(French, German) Dweller at the forest.
- dinn315(Scandinavian, English) The Frost surname means 'cold hearted individual', 'one with a white beard'.
- dinn315(Norse) The surname Frost or Ffrost means 'one with fair complexion'.
- dinn315(English) This surname means 'unfriendly individual'.
- dinn315Frost Demographics
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Frost Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Frost Come From? nationality or country of origin
Frost (Arabic: فروست, Russian: Фрост) occurs most in The United States. It may also appear as a variant: Fröst. Click here for other potential spellings of Frost.
How Common Is The Last Name Frost? popularity and diffusion
Frost is the 4,459th most numerous last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 57,763 people. The last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 45 percent of Frost reside; 44 percent reside in North America and 44 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Frost is also the 332,375th most frequently used first name in the world, held by 628 people.
This surname is most frequently used in The United States, where it is carried by 56,144 people, or 1 in 6,456. In The United States Frost is most common in: California, where 10 percent reside, Texas, where 6 percent reside and Florida, where 5 percent reside. Other than The United States this surname occurs in 146 countries. It is also common in England, where 23 percent reside and Australia, where 9 percent reside.
Frost Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Frost has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Frost last name rose 422 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 177 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it rose 457 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 375 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it rose 152 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Frost Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the last name is chiefly Catholic (78%) in Ireland, Orthodox (91%) in Russia, Orthodox (88%) in Belarus and Orthodox (88%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Frost surname are 14.05% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 60.82% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Frost earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 25.16% more than the national average, earning 433,157 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 55.36% more than the national average, earning R 369,192 per year; in United States they earn 2.04% more than the national average, earning $44,028 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.92% more than the national average, earning $50,141 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Frost Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Frost in the Russian language | ||
| Фрост | frost | - |
| Frost in the Arabic language | ||
| فروست | frwst | - |
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