Frost

At the 2020 census, 40,771 Americans bore the surname Frost — 830th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,331.

By the numbers

People: 40,771
Rank: 830th
How common: 1 in 7,331
Per 100,000: 13.6

Where the name comes from

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Frost described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.4%
Black, not Hispanic 7.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Frost

Robert Frost (1874–1963)American poet
David Frost (1939–2013)British television host, journalist, comedian and writer
Nick Frost (born 1972)English actor
Sadie Frost (born 1965)English actress and producer
Warren Frost (1925–2017)American actor
Mark Frost (born 1953)American writer
John Frost (1912–1993)British airborne officer
Maxwell Frost (born 1997)American politician and activist

People named Frost with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Frost

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.