as a Last Name
- 64,825
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Frank
Meaning & Origins
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.
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 64,825
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Montana
- has the most people named Frank per capita
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