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Meaning of the nameFrank

Frank is a male name of Germanic origin, borrowed from English, that points to the Franks, a Germanic people; Franck is the French form.

Meaning

“member of the Germanic people of the Franks”

Source: Behind the Name: Frank

People (2022)
15,670
Rank in Brazil
#1,258
Median age
35 years
2010 Census
16,806
people

Frank in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Frank, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1980s (4,159 people).

91 women 15,579 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Frank is most common

States with the highest share of people named Frank in the population, in the 2022 Census.

  1. Amazonas 0.065%
  2. Roraima 0.046%
  3. Amapá 0.030%
  4. Pará 0.018%
  5. Acre 0.016%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Amazonas2,5660.065%
São Paulo2,0940.005%
Minas Gerais1,4660.007%
Pará1,4530.018%
Rio de Janeiro8840.006%
Maranhão8740.013%
Bahia6390.005%
Paraná6190.005%
Goiás5520.008%
Santa Catarina4990.007%
Rio Grande do Sul3700.003%
Ceará3360.004%
Rio Grande do Norte3250.010%
Mato Grosso3040.008%
Piauí3040.009%
Roraima2950.046%
Espírito Santo2540.007%
Distrito Federal2430.009%
Pernambuco2240.003%
Amapá2180.030%
Mato Grosso do Sul2110.008%
Rondônia2090.013%
Paraíba1650.004%
Alagoas1570.005%
Tocantins1380.009%
Sergipe1370.006%
Acre1340.016%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Frank

Wiktionary records Frank in Portuguese as an unadapted borrowing from English. Behind the Name explains the name as an old Germanic name for a member of the Frankish people, a name that perhaps comes from a type of spear, and gives Franck as the French form. The morpheme list of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) links the element Franc- to the Germanic frank, 'free'. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 15,670 people named Frank, with a median age of 35, almost always male. Proportionally, it is most common in Amazonas.

English spelling, not adapted to Portuguese, and the most common in the group.

Other spellings of Frank

SpellingPeople (2022)
Frank15,670
Franck1,406

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Frank · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  2. Behind the Name: Frank · behindthename.com · meaning
  3. Behind the Name: Franck · behindthename.com · origin
  4. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (Franc-) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Frank

What does the name Frank mean?

Frank means “member of the Germanic people of the Franks”, according to Behind the Name.

How many people are named Frank in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 15,670 people with the first name Frank, which ranks it number 1,258 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

Is Frank a boy's or a girl's name?

Frank is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 91 women and 15,579 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Frank?

Frank is a name of Germanic and English origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Frank most common?

Proportionally, in Amazonas: 0.065% of the state's population is named Frank (2,566 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Frank?

Franck. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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