as a First Name
Of Germanic origin. The name referred originally to a member of the tribe of the Franks, who are said to have got the name from a characteristic type of spear that they used. When the Franks migrated into Gaul in the 4th century, the country received its modern name of France (Late Latin Francia) and the tribal term Frank came to mean ‘Frenchman’. The name is now also used as a short form of Francis or Franklin.
| 73rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 688,039
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 811,242
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Frank per capita
- 1914
- marked the height of its popularity
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99.89%
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32%
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7%
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