first name
FRANK
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 407,086 people named Frank, 71.9% reported their origin as White, 15.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.1% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Frank peaked in 1918, when 17,089 babies got the name.
At least 920,589 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Frank by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #8. The largest share of babies named Frank, 29.1%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Frank is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Frank has been most common in New Jersey (2×), New York (1.9×), and Connecticut (1.8×), and least common in Utah (0.48×).
827,324 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Frank
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Frank, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Frank ranks #516 of 156,621, with 63,608 people. See Frank as a last name
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