Frank Forename
157th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 3,082,995 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Palau
Frank Forename Definition:
A male name. this name is now, and has been since the 16th C, the common abbreviation of Francis (q.v.). But it was not uncommon in England from the time of the Norman Conquest till about the middle of the 14th C as an independent name representing the Old German Franco ‘a Frank’.
Read More About This ForenameFrank Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 996,175 | 1:364 | 51 |
| Germany | 100% | 623,669 | 1:155 | 29 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 227,287 | 1:232 | 18 |
| Ghana | 100% | 178,446 | 1:151 | 19 |
| Canada | 100% | 99,517 | 1:333 | 37 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 90,764 | 1:186 | 9 |
| England | 100% | 77,477 | 1:718 | 166 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 74,156 | 1:2,394 | 444 |
| Uganda | 98% | 71,151 | 1:576 | 110 |
| Malawi | 100% | 67,856 | 1:252 | 38 |
| Zambia | - | 30,833 | 1:514 | 106 |
| Belgium | 100% | 29,679 | 1:387 | 76 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 29,489 | 1:386 | 70 |
| Australia | - | 28,689 | 1:476 | 106 |
| South Africa | 100% | 26,257 | 1:2,077 | 346 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 25,802 | 1:1,171 | 186 |
| Ireland | 100% | 23,633 | 1:196 | 33 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 21,258 | 1:167 | 34 |
| Iran | 100% | 19,978 | 1:3,929 | 502 |
| Brazil | 100% | 19,821 | 1:10,809 | 1,182 |
| Peru | 100% | 16,883 | 1:1,883 | 370 |
| Mozambique | - | 16,800 | 1:1,622 | 362 |
| Denmark | - | 15,561 | 1:363 | 93 |
| Norway | 100% | 14,498 | 1:354 | 81 |
| Kenya | 100% | 12,878 | 1:3,596 | 602 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 11,476 | 1:618 | 150 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 11,154 | 1:1,383 | 254 |
| Burundi | 100% | 10,862 | 1:912 | 282 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 10,261 | 1:1,017 | 162 |
| France | 100% | 10,052 | 1:6,613 | 510 |
| Philippines | 99% | 9,168 | 1:11,563 | 1,489 |
| Cuba | - | 8,548 | 1:1,346 | 268 |
| Scotland | 100% | 8,042 | 1:665 | 144 |
| Papua New Guinea | 98% | 7,900 | 1:1,032 | 117 |
| China | - | 7,689 | 1:177,664 | 15,895 |
| Colombia | 100% | 7,121 | 1:6,710 | 701 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 6,807 | 1:1,207 | 258 |
| New Zealand | - | 6,405 | 1:708 | 166 |
| Sudan | 100% | 5,949 | 1:6,355 | 951 |
| Togo | - | 5,934 | 1:1,220 | 174 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 5,479 | 1:5,624 | 887 |
| Sweden | 100% | 5,467 | 1:1,803 | 288 |
| Madagascar | - | 5,441 | 1:4,343 | 912 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 5,079 | 1:4,095 | 698 |
| Jamaica | - | 4,550 | 1:634 | 154 |
| Cameroon | 93% | 4,250 | 1:5,085 | 784 |
| Angola | 100% | 4,049 | 1:6,660 | 925 |
| Poland | 100% | 3,958 | 1:9,608 | 444 |
| Ecuador | - | 3,166 | 1:5,599 | 592 |
| Mexico | 100% | 3,142 | 1:39,511 | 1,686 |
| Thailand | 100% | 3,066 | 1:22,853 | 3,061 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 3,013 | 1:24,503 | 1,911 |
| Wales | 100% | 2,687 | 1:1,152 | 256 |
| Austria | 100% | 2,482 | 1:3,430 | 373 |
| Liberia | 100% | 2,365 | 1:1,866 | 299 |
| Spain | 100% | 2,304 | 1:20,195 | 1,188 |
| Libya | - | 2,203 | 1:2,824 | 494 |
| Bangladesh | - | 2,108 | 1:75,646 | 5,664 |
| Egypt | 100% | 1,930 | 1:47,617 | 2,761 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1,852 | 1:305 | 68 |
| Gambia | - | 1,845 | 1:1,044 | 198 |
| Kuwait | - | 1,624 | 1:2,331 | 328 |
| Chile | 99% | 1,622 | 1:10,855 | 799 |
| India | 99% | 1,550 | 1:783,792 | 55,275 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 1,503 | 1:64,910 | 5,508 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 1,500 | 1:10,739 | 906 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 1,443 | 1:403 | 75 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1,420 | 1:3,358 | 493 |
| Italy | 100% | 1,233 | 1:49,523 | 1,342 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 1,135 | 1:1,199 | 220 |
| Panama | 100% | 1,087 | 1:3,594 | 671 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 1,086 | 1:9,762 | 1,027 |
| Nicaragua | 99% | 1,080 | 1:5,573 | 770 |
| Portugal | - | 1,042 | 1:9,991 | 620 |
| Suriname | 100% | 971 | 1:569 | 76 |
| Malta | - | 949 | 1:452 | 103 |
| Mali | 100% | 939 | 1:18,081 | 1,331 |
| Morocco | - | 901 | 1:38,123 | 1,790 |
| Bahamas | - | 899 | 1:444 | 95 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 897 | 1:2,055 | 335 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 825 | 1:36,909 | 3,254 |
| Vanuatu | - | 822 | 1:318 | 58 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 820 | 1:314,590 | 27,029 |
| Botswana | 100% | 812 | 1:2,690 | 475 |
| Fiji | - | 806 | 1:1,107 | 256 |
| Barbados | - | 780 | 1:372 | 78 |
| Hong Kong | - | 765 | 1:10,134 | 951 |
| Guam | - | 740 | 1:217 | 16 |
| Iraq | 100% | 739 | 1:47,385 | 1,699 |
| Japan | - | 691 | 1:185,219 | 6,544 |
| Russia | 94% | 673 | 1:214,315 | 3,103 |
| Belize | 100% | 552 | 1:642 | 83 |
| Oman | - | 551 | 1:7,457 | 950 |
| Singapore | 100% | 551 | 1:11,410 | 2,351 |
| Honduras | 100% | 529 | 1:16,668 | 1,321 |
| Gabon | 100% | 521 | 1:3,615 | 786 |
| Palau | - | 512 | 1:42 | 13 |
| Israel | 96% | 475 | 1:17,690 | 1,769 |
| Guyana | 100% | 463 | 1:1,649 | 304 |
| Finland | 100% | 451 | 1:12,158 | 872 |
| Burkina Faso | 99% | 445 | 1:41,302 | 2,999 |
| Swaziland | - | 436 | 1:2,982 | 627 |
| Samoa | - | 411 | 1:475 | 140 |
| Taiwan | 68% | 403 | 1:58,982 | 8,459 |
| Greece | 100% | 392 | 1:27,894 | 1,238 |
| Qatar | 100% | 366 | 1:6,474 | 1,059 |
| El Salvador | - | 323 | 1:19,634 | 1,045 |
| Ivory Coast | 99% | 315 | 1:73,257 | 4,865 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 293 | 1:532 | 163 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 291 | 1:105,795 | 3,016 |
| Aruba | - | 284 | 1:365 | 28 |
| Namibia | - | 257 | 1:9,355 | 1,164 |
| Ukraine | 99% | 253 | 1:179,842 | 1,206 |
| Chad | 100% | 247 | 1:55,054 | 5,059 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 239 | 1:388 | 61 |
| Bahrain | - | 237 | 1:5,691 | 904 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 215 | 1:510 | 76 |
| Argentina | 68% | 204 | 1:209,673 | 2,517 |
| South Korea | - | 176 | 1:31,502 | 2,530 |
| Somalia | - | 160 | 1:84,537 | 3,429 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 156 | 1:350 | 47 |
| Tonga | - | 151 | 1:711 | 162 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 150 | 1:1,295,718 | 20,949 |
| Estonia | 100% | 146 | 1:9,009 | 1,073 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 145 | 1:423 | 54 |
| Jersey | 100% | 140 | 1:714 | 167 |
| Benin | 100% | 136 | 1:77,764 | 5,271 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 135 | 1:2,001 | 395 |
| Hungary | 95% | 133 | 1:73,622 | 637 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 133 | 1:62,969 | 2,408 |
| Djibouti | - | 130 | 1:7,044 | 654 |
| French Polynesia | - | 130 | 1:2,138 | 477 |
| Czechia | 100% | 129 | 1:82,606 | 1,055 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 123 | 1:808 | 138 |
| Lesotho | 99% | 115 | 1:17,739 | 2,309 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 110 | 1:842,028 | 2,483 |
| Romania | 100% | 105 | 1:190,971 | 6,760 |
| Micronesia | - | 100 | 1:1,065 | 165 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 99 | 1:72,242 | 6,147 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 93 | 1:77,815 | 2,263 |
| Greenland | - | 92 | 1:613 | 137 |
| Grenada | 100% | 90 | 1:1,201 | 240 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 89 | 1:38,513 | 1,582 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 98% | 84 | 1:1,328 | 234 |
| Guernsey | 100% | 83 | 1:763 | 171 |
| Bermuda | - | 81 | 1:800 | 163 |
| American Samoa | - | 80 | 1:698 | 49 |
| Iceland | 100% | 78 | 1:4,693 | 577 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 74 | 1:76,048 | 2,859 |
| Afghanistan | - | 69 | 1:472,805 | 8,114 |
| Gibraltar | - | 68 | 1:502 | 109 |
| Saint Lucia | 98% | 68 | 1:2,615 | 492 |
| Belarus | 100% | 58 | 1:163,489 | 1,513 |
| Dominica | - | 54 | 1:1,398 | 254 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 50 | 1:17,422 | 1,193 |
| Laos | - | 49 | 1:134,426 | 189 |
| Croatia | 100% | 45 | 1:93,713 | 2,380 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 45 | 1:118,001 | 1,057 |
| Mongolia | - | 43 | 1:68,251 | 5,097 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 40 | 1:136,822 | 1,350 |
| Mauritius | - | 39 | 1:33,277 | 2,392 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 39 | 1:63,045 | 2,315 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 38 | 1:467,022 | 7,101 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 38 | 1:1,444 | 332 |
| Monaco | 100% | 36 | 1:1,068 | 232 |
| Cambodia | - | 34 | 1:478,627 | 10,442 |
| Turkey | 86% | 34 | 1:2,288,286 | 15,233 |
| Albania | 100% | 30 | 1:101,552 | 7,014 |
| Congo | 93% | 29 | 1:172,731 | 6,186 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 29 | 1:1,694 | 359 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 29 | 1:1,305 | 263 |
| Senegal | 100% | 29 | 1:502,805 | 6,516 |
| Haiti | 100% | 28 | 1:383,105 | 12,194 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 25 | 1:45,508 | 307 |
| Lithuania | - | 25 | 1:118,075 | 1,581 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 25 | 1:2,049 | 312 |
| Macau | - | 23 | 1:26,444 | 417 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 22 | 1:317,745 | 6,287 |
| Isle of Man | - | 21 | 1:4,049 | 166 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 19 | 1:507,523 | 10,355 |
| Niger | 100% | 18 | 1:1,065,777 | 16,400 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 17 | 1:2,042 | 490 |
| Andorra | - | 15 | 1:5,526 | 448 |
| Myanmar | - | 14 | 1:3,710,591 | 1,386 |
| Niue | - | 13 | 1:123 | 22 |
| Nauru | 100% | 12 | 1:994 | 151 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 10 | 1:67,690 | 3,091 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 9 | 1:192,024 | 110 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 9 | 1:1,283,447 | 1,308 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 8 | 1:3,906 | 755 |
| Armenia | 71% | 7 | 1:416,965 | 5,243 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 7 | 1:75,593 | 2,885 |
| Mauritania | - | 6 | 1:682,540 | 11,802 |
| Yemen | - | 6 | 1:4,382,792 | 4,591 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 5 | 1:2,651 | 523 |
| Bhutan | - | 5 | 1:164,986 | 3,051 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 5 | 1:1,263 | 280 |
| Brunei | - | 4 | 1:104,892 | 1,566 |
| Guinea | 100% | 4 | 1:2,964,662 | 5,204 |
| Kiribati | - | 4 | 1:28,348 | 503 |
| Kosovo | - | 4 | 1:465,360 | 11,976 |
| Nepal | - | 4 | 1:7,121,838 | 62,014 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 4 | 1:581 | 152 |
| Saint Martin | - | 4 | 1:8,936 | 133 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 4 | 1:47,999 | 3,228 |
| Syria | - | 4 | 1:4,826,519 | 5,774 |
| Maldives | - | 3 | 1:144,634 | 3,056 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 2 | 1:121,711 | 2,524 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Cook Islands | - | 2 | 1:9,076 | 1,075 |
| Georgia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 50% | 2 | 1:2,986,638 | 34,954 |
| Latvia | - | 2 | 1:1,007,822 | 4,547 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| Moldova | - | 2 | 1:1,780,570 | 7,407 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 2 | 1:317,288 | 3,822 |
| Montserrat | - | 2 | 1:2,438 | 412 |
| Palestine | 100% | 2 | 1:2,275,029 | 4,783 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Eritrea | - | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Jordan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| San Marino | 100% | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Serbia | 100% | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
Frank (380,135) may also be a surname.
Frank Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. this name is now, and has been since the 16th C, the common abbreviation of Francis (q.v.). But it was not uncommon in England from the time of the Norman Conquest till about the middle of the 14th C as an independent name representing the Old German Franco ‘a Frank’. Franco occurs three times in Domesday Book and Francus once, and Franco, Francus, Frank, Fraunk occur with some frequency in the records of the next three centuries.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
A male name. this name is now, and has been since the 16th C, the common abbreviation of Francis (q.v.). But it was not uncommon in England from the time of the Norman Conquest till about the middle of the 14th C as an independent name representing the Old German Franco ‘a Frank’. Franco occurs three times in Domesday Book and Francus once, and Franco, Francus, Frank, Fraunk occur with some frequency in the records of the next three centuries.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
The more Teutonic form of Francis. Perhaps influenced by French franc. See also at Frances.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A baptismal name corrupted from Francis.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Teutonic (masculine) - Indomitable.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Teutonic name, meaning: Free.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Frank Forename Popularity
Frank Demographics
Frank Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 42 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Frank Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Frank in the Russian language | ||
| Франк | frank | - |
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