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Frank
Pronounced /ˈfɹæŋk/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1929 · #601
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:656 in 2024 (#468)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No girls were recorded as Frank in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1929 with 130 babies, ranked #601.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 4,611 girls have been named Frank since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Frank per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,446 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Silent: 1,081 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 739 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 595 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 328 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 14 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Frank, partially from Old English Franca (“a Frank”); and partially from Old French Franc, and/or Latin Francus (“a Frank”), from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”); both maybe from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). Cognate with Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), Old English franca (“spear, javelin”). Compare Saxon, ultimately a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“knife, dagger”). Doublet of franc, frank, and farang. ==== Noun ==== Frank (plural Franks) One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- A diminutive of the male given name Francis.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈfɹæŋk/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Frank, CC BY-SA 4.0.