Frank

63,608 people in the United States were counted with the surname Frank in the 2020 census, making it the 516th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,699.

By the numbers

People: 63,608
Rank: 516th
How common: 1 in 4,699
Per 100,000: 21.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

The surname derives from the medieval tribal name. The given name is also a form of Francis, with formal given name status since the 19th century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Frank described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.4%
Black, not Hispanic 8.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%

Notable people called Frank

Anne Frank (1929–1945)German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim
Ilya Frank (1908–1990)Soviet physicist
Hans Frank (1900–1946)German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal
Joachim Frank (born 1940)German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate
Karl Hermann Frank (1898–1946)Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament and Nazi Germany politician
Margot Frank (1926–1945)older sister of Anne Frank
Otto Heinrich Frank (1889–1980)father of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank
Jason David Frank (1973–2022)American actor and martial artist

People named Frank with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Frank

Also a first name

Frank has been given to 920,589 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.