Frank
Frank was given to 584 boys in 2025, #514 among boys’ names; 920,589 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 335,000 Americans named Frank and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (36% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 47 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Frank by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Frank mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Frank is “a male given name from the Germanic languages.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Francis.”
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.
/ˈfɹeɪ̯ŋk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Frank?
#514 among boys’ names, 2025
Frank fell from #355 in 2015 to #514 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.49 to 0.34 per 1,000.
17,089 babies in 1918, the peak
Frank peaked in 1918, when 17,089 babies were given it (17,018 boys, #9 among boys’ names). The 584 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 584 | #514 | 0.34 |
| 2024 | 658 | #469 | 0.38 |
| 2023 | 650 | #469 | 0.38 |
| 2022 | 708 | #440 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 691 | #445 | 0.39 |
| 2020 | 694 | #428 | 0.40 |
| 2019 | 773 | #403 | 0.43 |
| 2018 | 807 | #392 | 0.44 |
| 2017 | 890 | #373 | 0.48 |
| 2016 | 957 | #353 | 0.50 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 945 | #355 | 0.49 |
| 2014 | 991 | #336 | 0.52 |
| 2013 | 1,007 | #327 | 0.53 |
| 2012 | 985 | #320 | 0.52 |
| 2011 | 1,048 | #308 | 0.55 |
| 2010 | 1,077 | #302 | 0.56 |
| 2009 | 1,138 | #291 | 0.57 |
| 2008 | 1,228 | #278 | 0.60 |
| 2007 | 1,333 | #262 | 0.64 |
| 2006 | 1,401 | #246 | 0.68 |
| 2005 | 1,480 | #231 | 0.74 |
| 2004 | 1,466 | #230 | 0.74 |
| 2003 | 1,500 | #230 | 0.76 |
| 2002 | 1,587 | #216 | 0.82 |
| 2001 | 1,634 | #214 | 0.84 |
| 2000 | 1,708 | #209 | 0.87 |
| 1999 | 1,855 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 1,889 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1997 | 2,023 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 1996 | 2,149 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 1995 | 2,247 | #157 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 2,479 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 1993 | 2,503 | #134 | 1.3 |
| 1992 | 2,756 | #125 | 1.4 |
| 1991 | 2,881 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 1990 | 3,188 | #109 | 1.6 |
| 1989 | 3,049 | #109 | 1.5 |
| 1988 | 3,271 | #99 | 1.7 |
| 1987 | 3,123 | #97 | 1.7 |
| 1986 | 3,178 | #91 | 1.7 |
| 1985 | 3,302 | #90 | 1.8 |
| 1984 | 3,330 | #86 | 1.8 |
| 1983 | 3,361 | #86 | 1.9 |
| 1982 | 3,604 | #81 | 2.0 |
| 1981 | 3,638 | #82 | 2.0 |
| 1980 | 3,734 | #81 | 2.1 |
| 1979 | 3,928 | #78 | 2.3 |
| 1978 | 3,775 | #77 | 2.3 |
| 1977 | 3,894 | #71 | 2.4 |
| 1976 | 3,899 | #68 | 2.5 |
| 1975 | 4,212 | #66 | 2.7 |
| 1974 | 4,365 | #65 | 2.8 |
| 1973 | 4,785 | #61 | 3.1 |
| 1972 | 5,165 | #56 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 6,089 | #54 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6,805 | #48 | 3.7 |
| 1969 | 6,917 | #47 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 6,897 | #49 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 7,426 | #45 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 7,787 | #43 | 4.4 |
| 1965 | 8,319 | #43 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 9,333 | #41 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 9,527 | #41 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 9,761 | #42 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 10,433 | #41 | 4.9 |
| 1960 | 10,755 | #40 | 5.0 |
| 1959 | 10,942 | #42 | 5.1 |
| 1958 | 11,325 | #38 | 5.3 |
| 1957 | 11,268 | #38 | 5.2 |
| 1956 | 11,151 | #38 | 5.3 |
| 1955 | 11,109 | #34 | 5.4 |
| 1954 | 10,995 | #36 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 11,180 | #33 | 5.7 |
| 1952 | 11,268 | #32 | 5.8 |
| 1951 | 11,477 | #31 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 11,606 | #29 | 6.5 |
| 1949 | 11,960 | #27 | 6.7 |
| 1948 | 12,698 | #25 | 7.2 |
| 1947 | 13,994 | #23 | 7.6 |
| 1946 | 12,667 | #22 | 7.8 |
| 1945 | 10,874 | #21 | 8.1 |
| 1944 | 11,340 | #21 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 12,246 | #21 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 12,248 | #21 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 10,795 | #21 | 8.8 |
| 1940 | 10,595 | #20 | 9.1 |
| 1939 | 9,991 | #20 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 10,260 | #18 | 9.3 |
| 1937 | 10,127 | #18 | 9.5 |
| 1936 | 10,186 | #16 | 9.8 |
| 1935 | 10,420 | #16 | 10.0 |
| 1934 | 10,640 | #16 | 10.3 |
| 1933 | 10,962 | #16 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 11,497 | #15 | 11.0 |
| 1931 | 11,472 | #16 | 11.0 |
| 1930 | 12,535 | #13 | 11.4 |
| 1929 | 12,966 | #12 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 13,570 | #12 | 12.3 |
| 1927 | 14,377 | #12 | 12.8 |
| 1926 | 14,493 | #12 | 13.1 |
| 1925 | 15,329 | #12 | 13.7 |
| 1924 | 16,044 | #12 | 14.2 |
| 1923 | 15,903 | #11 | 14.5 |
| 1922 | 16,013 | #10 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 16,705 | #9 | 15.2 |
| 1920 | 16,430 | #9 | 15.4 |
| 1919 | 15,701 | #9 | 16.0 |
| 1918 | 17,018 | #9 | 16.8 |
| 1917 | 15,768 | #9 | 17.0 |
| 1916 | 15,291 | #9 | 17.2 |
| 1915 | 15,006 | #9 | 17.7 |
| 1914 | 12,002 | #9 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 9,237 | #9 | 18.0 |
| 1912 | 7,912 | #9 | 18.4 |
| 1911 | 4,314 | #8 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 3,768 | #8 | 19.4 |
| 1909 | 3,244 | #8 | 19.8 |
| 1908 | 3,146 | #8 | 20.4 |
| 1907 | 2,943 | #8 | 20.0 |
| 1906 | 2,798 | #8 | 21.0 |
| 1905 | 2,837 | #8 | 21.4 |
| 1904 | 2,799 | #8 | 21.8 |
| 1903 | 2,644 | #8 | 22.2 |
| 1902 | 2,756 | #8 | 22.5 |
| 1901 | 2,402 | #8 | 22.6 |
| 1900 | 3,477 | #8 | 23.1 |
| 1899 | 2,550 | #8 | 24.0 |
| 1898 | 2,925 | #8 | 23.8 |
| 1897 | 2,726 | #7 | 24.2 |
| 1896 | 2,845 | #7 | 23.8 |
| 1895 | 3,012 | #6 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 2,863 | #7 | 24.7 |
| 1893 | 2,917 | #7 | 26.0 |
| 1892 | 3,150 | #6 | 25.8 |
| 1891 | 2,652 | #6 | 26.2 |
| 1890 | 3,078 | #6 | 27.7 |
| 1889 | 2,975 | #6 | 26.9 |
| 1888 | 3,459 | #6 | 28.6 |
| 1887 | 2,883 | #6 | 28.4 |
| 1886 | 3,127 | #6 | 28.2 |
| 1885 | 3,067 | #6 | 28.5 |
| 1884 | 3,218 | #6 | 28.1 |
| 1883 | 2,986 | #6 | 28.5 |
| 1882 | 3,176 | #6 | 27.9 |
| 1881 | 2,834 | #6 | 28.1 |
| 1880 | 3,242 | #6 | 29.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Frank a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Frank has been given almost only to boys: 4,611 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Frank: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Frank, and how old are they?
335,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 36% of the 920,589 Americans ever recorded as Frank. The median Frank alive today is 63 years old; half are between 47 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 407,086 people named Frank (624 women and girls, 406,462 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 389,620 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 38,700 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 140,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 77,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 45,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 22,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,300 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Frank born?
The states with the most babies named Frank are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 123,269 | #314 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 75,737 | #512 | 1.3× |
| California | 67,745 | #533 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 51,001 | #405 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 47,248 | #246 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 42,255 | #617 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 39,168 | #633 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 29,389 | #496 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 25,631 | #526 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 17,284 | #385 | 1.0× |
Where Frank is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Frank is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1910 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Frank with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 920,763 babies since 1880, Frank is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 584 of their 584 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Frank
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Frank and names like it
- Compare Frank and FranckBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sFrank peaked in 1918.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Frank since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Frank: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Frank.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Frank alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.