Fränkl
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Fränkl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304Kas Fraenkl
- CZCzechia1 in 1.5Mas Fraenkl
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 Fränkl 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈21 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Fraenkl in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland.
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)Main GB Location (1881): Middx.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fränkl 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Fraenkl | 16 |
| NO Norway | 18as Fraenkl | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 541K | — | Fraenkl | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | Fraenkl | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | 7as Fraenkl | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
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: the dfa-band-4 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Minna Fränklb. 1878CZHolocaust victim (born 1878)
- Adolf Fränklb. 1880CZholocaust victim, b. 1880-11-12
- Ervín Fränklb. 1881CZHolocaust victim, b. 1881-01-16
- Bedřich Fränklb. 1892CZholocaust victim, b. 1892-10-17
- Ervín Fränklb. 1907CZholocaust victim, b. 1907-05-10
- Evžen Fränklb. 1908holocaust victim, b. 1908-06-28
- Jiří Fränklb. 1921CZCzechoslovak teacher
- Hugo Gerhard Fränklb. 1936ATHolocaust victim (born 1936)
- Gerald Fränklb. 1979DEGerman entrepreneur
- Sofia Fränklb. 2000DEGerman painter
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #182,562 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #25,013 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fränkl mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Middx. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Fränkl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 people named Fränkl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fraenkl.
- Where is Fränkl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fränkl is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.1 million people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fränkl?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 8 people named Fränkl in 2024, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fr%C3%A4nklThe 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, “Fränkl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.