Fränkel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from Franken; diminutive with -l suffix
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
Fränkel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 27Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 46K
- CACanada≈1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fränkel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 385 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
7,253 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Frankel in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 2 more, פרנקל in IL Israel, Френкель in RU Russia and Frenkel in DE Germany.
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)Toponymic surname from Franken; diminutive with -l suffix. Bearers: 410.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Fränkel is found
(measured from records)Fränkel 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 | — | 7,253 | 1 in 46K | 7.3K | Frankel | 385 |
| IL Israel | #120 | 5,182as פרנקל | 1 in 1.7K | 5.2K | פרנקל | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | listed | Frankel | 114 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 79K | listed | Frenkel | 80 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Френкель | 106 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Frankel | 98 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Frankel | 93 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Frankel | 1 |
7,253 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); the dfa-band-4 register. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Fränkel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname of origin from a place/region name. Bearer count 410.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Patronymischer Familienname aus ahd./altsächs. Franko 'der Franke'; Nebenformen der Frank-/Franke-Gruppe.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- David Hirschel Fraenkelb. 1707DEnot in their usual nameGerman rabbi
- Charlotte Fränkelb. 1880DEGerman classical archaeologist (1880–1933)
- Hermann Fränkelb. 1888DEGerman-born American classical philologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Fränkel come from?
- Toponymic surname from Franken; diminutive with -l suffix. Bearers: 410. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- What does the name Fränkel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from Franken; diminutive with -l suffix.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fränkel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Fränkel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frankel. After it come Israel, United Kingdom, Germany and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Fränkel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,253 people named Fränkel in 2010, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Fränkel compared with other names?
- In Israel, Fränkel is the 120th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fr%C3%A4nkelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Fränkel” — the 120th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.