The frome Surname
frome Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various places so called
from the rivers on which they stand, or simply a name for someone
living beside a river of this name, which is probably cognate with
Welsh ffraw ‘fair’, ‘fine’, ‘brisk’. Compare Frampton.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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