# Frost (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/frost/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 42,015 |
| US rank (2010) | 822 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 7,348 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.5% (40,582 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

English, German, Swedish and Danish surname, all from the noun frost.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Frost in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Frost in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Kingdom of Denmark and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Frost

- Robert Frost, American poet (1874–1963)
- Warren Frost, American actor (1925–2017)
- Mark Frost, American writer
- John Frost, British airborne officer (1912-1993)
- Maxwell Frost, American politician and activist (born 1997)
- Alex Frost, American actor
- Royal Harwood Frost, American astronomer (1879-1950)
- Jim True-Frost, American actor
- Lindsay Frost, American actress and contemporary artist
- David Frost, British diplomat
- A. B. Frost, American artist; (1851-1928)
- Julie Frost, American musician

and 12 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Forrest, Frausto, Forest, Furst, Forst, Fuerst, First, Forsythe, Forster, Forsyth, Forester, Foerster.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.