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Frona vs Fronia

American parents have registered 873 Fronas since 1880, against 543 Fronias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Frona against Fronia, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Frona Fronia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 74 years in which either name was published, Frona for 62 years and Fronia for 12 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.

15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Frona Fronia
Total US births 873543
Most in one year 2316
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 9040
Median age today 7986
Peak year 18941918
Best rank 609th girls2,209th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801881
Girls / boys 873 / 0543 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Fronias alive today are over 86; half the Fronas are over 79. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Frona and Fronia.