Fraser

What Fraser means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Fraser yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #308 vs #5,608 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Fraser?

US: Rising: up from #12086 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #240 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 22 boys got the name (#4571 that year). First in the US records in 1915.

How common

• About 1 in 106,755 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,850 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 457 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Fraser is #5608 in the US and #308 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Fraser were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Frazer0 US · 14 E&W
• Fraizer0 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Fraser

Boys

• Forrest#374“forest”^*
• Franklin#359“freeholder”^*
• Russell#345Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 7,487 babies; 944 in 2025
• Jay#392“victory”^*
• Wade#344“a ford”^*
• Sterling#345Variant of Stirling, possibly meaning “stream + pool, lake”^*

For a sister

• Darcy#857“to burn, consume”^*
• Murphy#397“descendant of Murrough”^*
• Fallon#778“descendant of Fallamhan”^*
• Kori#978Form of Corey, possibly meaning “troop, host, company”^*
• Chandler#895Editor’s note 296 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Holly#416“wood, clearing, meadow”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Fraser’s. Rank is US 2025.