Frànko
surname · Latin script
Frànko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Italian franco, from French franc (“franc”), a type of currency used in Switzerland and formerly also France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
- SISlovenia1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 5.1K
- CZCzechia1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
2,301 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Franko in US United States, SK Slovakia, CZ Czechia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Italianfranco(measured from records)
- Frenchfranc“franc”(measured from records)
From Italian franco, from French franc (“franc”), a type of currency used in Switzerland and formerly also France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Frànko counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,301 | 1 in 145K | 2.3K | Franko | 14 |
| SK Slovakia | #404 | 1,064 | 1 in 5.1K | 1.1K | Franko | 51 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 434 | 1 in 4.8K | 434 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 271 | 1 in 141K | 146 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 170 | 1 in 63K | 170 | Franko | 34 |
2,301 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Frànko mean, and where does it come from?
- From Italian franco, from French franc (“franc”), a type of currency used in Switzerland and formerly also France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,… and 1 other source.
- In which country does Frànko have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Frànko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled franko.
- Where is Frànko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Frànko is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 4.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Frànko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,301 people named Frànko in 2010, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
- How common is Frànko compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Frànko is the 404th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Frànko” — the 404th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.