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Frank

in Iowa

There are 893 people with the last name "Frank" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

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Frank 248
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  1. is 244th most common Sharp
  2. is 245th most common Decker
  3. is 246th most common Perkins
  4. is 247th most common Yoder
  5. is 248th most common Frank
  6. is 249th most common Moeller
  7. is 250th most common Ramirez
  8. is 251st most common Warren
  9. is 252nd most common Berg

Similar Names and Nicknames

Franklin, Francis, Franco, Franks, French, Francisco, Francois, France, Franz, Frantz

Most Common First Names for Frank

John, Robert, David, Donald, James, Mary, Richard, Jennifer, Daniel, Dennis

Meaning & History

German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovenian, Czech, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): ethnic or regional name for someone from Franconia (German Franken), a region of southwestern Germany so called from its early settlement by the Franks, a Germanic people who inhabited the lands around the river Rhine in Roman times. In the 6th–9th centuries, under leaders such as Clovis I (c. 466–511) and Charlemagne (742–814), the Franks established a substantial empire in western Europe, from which the country of France takes its name. The term Frank in eastern Mediterranean countries was used, in various vernacular forms, to denote the Crusaders and their descendants, and the American surname may also be an Americanized form of such a form.

English, Dutch, German, etc.: from the personal name Frank, in origin an ethnic name for a Frank. This also came be used as an adjective meaning ‘free’, ‘open-hearted’, ‘generous’, deriving from the fact that in Frankish Gaul only people of Frankish race enjoyed the status of fully free men. It was also used as a Jewish personal name.

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