Frona

Girls' name

Diminutive of Sophronia

Frona has been given to 873 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1894, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Frona, 1961

1 in 518,000

Frona over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Frona: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Sophronia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Frona means

Frona is a diminutive of Sophronia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Frona is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈfɹoʊ.nə/ for Frona.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sophronia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 873 girls were recorded with the name Frona between 1880 and 1961. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1894; its best national rank was #560 in 1880.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Frona?

Frona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1961, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1961: 1 in 518,000; 8 of 4,142,426 births
Among girls only: 1 in 252,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1961: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 358,915 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Frona sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1961 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 358,915 children born in 1961 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Frona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fronas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Frona was born before 1914 — so the typical Frona is around 111 today.

Median birth year: 1914; About 111 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 18.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 14.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 41; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Frona 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: —; 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 1894 (23)
Years since peak: 131; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 13.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #560; 1880

Spellings of Frona

Frona is not the most common spelling — Rosa is, with 21.9% against Frona's 0.11%.

Rosa21.9%177,415
Leona14.0%113,330
Flora8.8%70,971
Mona5.6%45,787
Freda5.2%42,527
Rena4.8%39,124
Ronda4.2%34,315
Fiona4.2%33,959

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 Frona is used

Across 1910–2025, Frona was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 312,316 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Kentucky1 in 100,000
2Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Frona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Frona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #560; 1880
Peak year: 1894; 23 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 1961
All-time count: 873
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Frona

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

Teona Elona Deona Viona Riona Ziona Anona Kiona Cleona Siona Fronie Fronia Tona Sona Alona Keona Ilona Wyona Liona Jona Oona Siyona Aviona Halona

Sibling names for Frona

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

For a sister

Hulda Meta Bess Lulu Maud Maude Golda Lauretta

For a brother

Dewey Will Grover Garfield Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield

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