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Frank
Pronounced /ˈfɹæŋk/
Rank in 2024
#468
Born in 2024
656
Peak year
1918 · #9
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 656 boys were named Frank, about 1 in every 2,615.
- It peaked in 1918 with 17,018 babies, ranked #9.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 915,398 boys 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.
- 16.0Greatest1901–27
- 9.8Silent1928–45
- 5.7Boomers1946–64
- 3.2Gen X1965–80
- 1.6Millennials1981–96
- 0.7Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 266,880 babies, 15.96 per 1,000. Silent: 202,724 babies, 9.82 per 1,000. Boomers: 213,447 babies, 5.68 per 1,000. Gen X: 87,999 babies, 3.23 per 1,000. Millennials: 48,070 babies, 1.58 per 1,000. Gen Z: 23,350 babies, 0.74 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 9,766 babies, 0.45 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.