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Male Name
Usage
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Faroese
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) English short form of Francis [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
2) German younger form of Franko [1] [2] [3] [8] [10]
3) Anglicized form of Franco [3] [10]
4) English short form of Franklin [3]
Related Names
For female forms see Franka
Male
Franksson
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Female
Franksdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Frank
|
Genitive: |
Franks
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Frank
|
Accusative: |
Frank
|
Dative: |
Frank
|
Genitive: |
Franks
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Frank
|
Genitive: |
Frankin
|
Partitive: |
Frankia / Frankiä
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Frank
|
Accusative: |
Frank
|
Dative: |
Frank
|
Genitive: |
Franks
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Frank
|
Genitive: |
Franks
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Frank
|
Genitive: |
Franks
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Name Days
Norway
|
4 October
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Finland (Swedish Language)
|
4 October
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Sweden
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4 October
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Frank Jæger (19 June 1926 - 4 July 1977), Danish poet
- Fridtjof Frank Gundersen (29 October 1934 – 11 November 2011), Norwegian professor of jurisprudence and politician
- Frank Henrik Aarebrot (19 January 1947 – 9 September 2017), Norwegian political scientist, political commentator and professor of comparative politics
- Frank Arnesen (* 30 September 1956), former Danish football player
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 4,811 people were named Frank (percentage of first or only given name: 84 %) [13]
- Frank was a heavy storm in Norway in January 2021.
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[14] |
|
6039 |
10337 |
3 |
23 |
6036 |
10314 |
Denmark[15] |
|
10622 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
10622 |
n.a. |
Finland[16] |
|
n.a. |
1712 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
1712 |
Greenland[17] |
|
54 |
98 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[18] |
|
41 |
84 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[19] |
|
9530 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
9530 |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [14][15][19][16]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [20]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables