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In Germany I see some recent occurrences of the name Fron for boys, see, e.g., https://blog.beliebte-vornamen.de/2022/03/fuellhorn-b-f/
The name may be borne by children of recent immigrants (candidate source language would include Albanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian or Romanian) or inspired by some pop cultural source. At the moment, it is a total puzzle to me, an looking at the names Frona and Fronia in the database does not give me a real idea. It is probably not a native German name because of the association with the German word Fronarbeit or Frondienst "socage; corvée; forced labour".
Any ideas on the whereabouts of Fron?
EDIT: Maybe Albanian (or more specifically, Kosovarian), I found an Albanian namesake here https://balkaninsight.com/author/fron-nahzi/ and there is also a destillery named "Fron" in Kosovo.
The name may be borne by children of recent immigrants (candidate source language would include Albanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian or Romanian) or inspired by some pop cultural source. At the moment, it is a total puzzle to me, an looking at the names Frona and Fronia in the database does not give me a real idea. It is probably not a native German name because of the association with the German word Fronarbeit or Frondienst "socage; corvée; forced labour".
Any ideas on the whereabouts of Fron?
EDIT: Maybe Albanian (or more specifically, Kosovarian), I found an Albanian namesake here https://balkaninsight.com/author/fron-nahzi/ and there is also a destillery named "Fron" in Kosovo.
This message was edited 4/27/2022, 5:49 AM
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A friend sent me your quest to find the origins of Fron. In short Fron is the English phonetic spelling of the Albanian name Fran (in Albanian the "a" is pronounced as in father). At about the age of 11 I replaced the "a" with the "o"...in New York City public schools "Fron" sounded better than "Fran" for a boy. Hope this is helpful.
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