The Frater surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 642 people carried this name — #35,096 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 454,500 people counted. That is up 4% from 616 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Frater surname
Occupational surname, from frater.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Frater» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 77 people named Frater.
7 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Saône-et-Loire.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Frater,
with a public archive behind them.
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John Taylor Frater 1848–1923 · politician -
Gáspár Körmendi 1500–1570 · poet
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George Frater 1876–1968 · rugby league player
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Jim Frater 1887–1969 · painter
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Rita Violet Ley 1898–1982
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Alexander Frater 1937–2020 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Frater.
- Franzoni 477 · U.S. census
- Frappier 988 · U.S. census
- Frare 102 · U.S. census
- Fras 138 · U.S. census
- Frasca 1,541 · U.S. census
- Fraser 25,961 · U.S. census
- Frati 198 · U.S. census
- Fraticelli 762 · U.S. census
- Fratini 244 · U.S. census
- Fratoni 122 · U.S. census
- Fratta 158 · U.S. census
- Frattini 318 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Frater is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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