Boy
Frank
As a boy's name, Frank traces back to Germanic, where it is understood to mean "Free man". It has not kept pace since its 1920s peak. In the current registry, it is one of the most familiar names around. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
GermanicFree man
Old FrenchA member of the Frankish people, free
Births by decade
1900s
29,240
1910s
116,579
1920s
152,776
1930s
108,691
1940s
119,802
1950s
112,668
1960s
87,551
1970s
47,307
1980s
33,854
1990s
24,049
2000s
14,472
2010s
7,880
Peaked in the 1920s · 854,869 total U.S. births since 1900