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Fraser

#5,684 in 2025Boys' name

Scottish surname transferred into given-name use

Fraser has been given to 551 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #5,684 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Fraser, 2025

1 in 207,000

Fraser over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fraser: meaning, origin, and history

Scottish surname transferred into given-name use

surname transfer

What Fraser means

Fraser is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fraser is used in Scottish and English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈfɹeɪ.zəɹ/ and /ˈfɹeɪ.zə/ for Fraser.

The naming story behind Fraser

Fraser is a given name adopted from Scottish surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Scottish surname thought to be from Norman, but not corresponding to any obvious places in France; perhaps a corrupted transcription of a Middle Irish name. More at Fraser.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Fraser (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Fraser is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Fraser is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Fraser is pronounced /ˈfɹeɪzə(ɹ)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 551 boys were recorded with the name Fraser between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,379 in 1937.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,403 in 2020 to #5,684 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,685 in 2015 to #5,684 in 2025.

How common is Fraser?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,684
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fraser sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fraser. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Frasers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fraser was born before 1988 — so the typical Fraser is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
16.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
431
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 16.2% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Fraser rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,080
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+719
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,001
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2024 (22)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,379
1937

Spellings of Fraser

Fraser is not the most common spelling — Frazier is, with 53.0% against Fraser's 13.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Fraser is used

Across 1910–2025, Fraser was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,834,433 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fraser has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fraser around the world

Where Fraser ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #308
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #116
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2001–2025
    #344
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2009–2021
    #755
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #977
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2013
    #239
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fraser by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,684
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 719
Best rank ever
#2,379
1937
Peak year
2024
22 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
551
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Fraser

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Fraser

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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