Frazer

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Frazer has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1930, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Frazer, 1993

1 in 754,000

Frazer over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Frazer?

Frazer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 754,000
5 of 3,768,729 births
Among boys only
1 in 392,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
522,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Frazer 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 1993 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 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Frazer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Frazers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Frazer was born before 1937 — so the typical Frazer is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
23.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
37
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Choose a decade

1930s — 23.6% of all recorded uses (26).

Is Frazer 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1930 (9)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,851
1930

Spellings of Frazer

Frazer is not the most common spelling — Frazier is, with 51.8% against Frazer's 2.6%.

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.

Frazer around the world

Where Frazer 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
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2021
    #433
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–1994
    #1,715
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1948–2012
    #514
    in 2012

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

Frazer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,851
1930
Peak year
1930
9 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
110
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Frazer

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

Sibling names for Frazer

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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