Given name & surname
Frost
“one who is cold”
Frost is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who is cold.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who is cold.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Frost through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 39
- 39 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #6,580 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,580 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 148 as a first name in 2020; 40,771 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Frost’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Frost has a later derivative in PRUSTI. Frost has a related form in Frostea. Frost has a related form in Frostee.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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