The surname Frain
A French surname, carried by 1,491 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈfɹeɪn/ 1 syllable Soundex F650
Origin
French origin
From Old French fraisne.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,491 people named Frain in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 207,073 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,455.
Who is named Frain
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Frain identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Frain has the Soundex code F650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F650.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Frain come from?
- From Old French fraisne.
- How common is the surname Frain?
- 1,491 people in the United States had the surname Frain in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,073 Americans. It ranked 18,511th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Frain?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Frain identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- How do you pronounce Frain?
- Frain is /ˈfɹeɪn/, one syllable.
- Is the surname Frain getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,455 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,491 in 2010, up 2.5%.