Francke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɹæŋk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Francke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch and German Francke.
- USUnited States1 in 604K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 25K
- NONorway1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Dutch and German Francke.
Sources 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Francke 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 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | — | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Francke | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | 694 | 1 in 25K | 694 | Francke | 25 |
| US United States | 551 | 1 in 604K | 611 | Francke | 182 |
| SE Sweden | 266 | 1 in 38K | 266 | Francke | 17 |
| NO Norway | 158 | 1 in 35K | 158 | — | 5 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Meister Franckeb. 1380DEDutch painter (c. 1380–c. 1435)
- August Hermann Franckeb. 1663DEGerman Lutheran clergyman, philanthropist and Biblical scholar (1663-1727)
- Johann Valentin Franckeb. 1792DEGerman teacher and classical philologist (1792–1830)
- Eduard Franckeb. 1842DEGerman politician (1842-1917)
- August Hermann Franckeb. 1870DETranslator of English and Tibetan
- Peter Franckeb. 1897DEGerman screenwriter (1897-1978)
- Klaus Franckeb. 1936DEGerman politician (1936-2020)
- Rolf Franckeb. 1940DEGerman politician
- Pedro Franckeb. 1960PEPeruvian economist
- Christine Franckeb. 1974DEGerman association football player
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 694 | #2,627 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 611 | #38,939 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 553 | #37,788 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 551 | #39,837 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 266 | #3,308 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 158 | #10,031 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Francke mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Dutch and German Francke. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Francke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɹæŋk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Francke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Francke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Francke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Francke is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Francke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 694 people named Francke in 2007, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Francke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/franckeThe 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, “Francke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.