Frome Family History

English: habitational name from any of various places so called such as Frome (Somerset), Frome Saint Quintin, Frome Vauchurch, Frome Whitfield in Stinsford, the lost Frome Billet in West Stafford (all Dorset), Bishops Frome, Canon Frome, Castle Frome, and Prior's Frome and Larport (formerly Frome) both in Mordiford (all Herefordshire).

Or a topographic name from the rivers on which these places are located 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.