Frankie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ,9 Pet form of Frank, also sometimes of bFrances, Francesca, or }Francine
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Frankie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 89th most common given name.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 817as Frank
- DKDenmark1 in 588as Frank
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 Frankie 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)
- Sources
- 482 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
407,086 named Frank, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Franke in SE Sweden.
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)
,9 Pet form of Frank, also sometimes of bFrances, Francesca, or }Francine. As a girl’s name, it is perhaps most familiar as the name of the heroine of The Ballad of Frankie and Johnny.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frankie 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 | #786 | 407,086as Frank | 1 in 817 | 406K | Frankie | 482 |
| BR Brazil | — | 15,670as Frank | 1 in 14K | 17K | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11,775as Frank | 1 in 866 | 12K | Franke | 35 |
| DK Denmark | — | 9,987as Frank | 1 in 588 | 10K | Frankie | 21 |
| NO Norway | — | 9,080as Frank | 1 in 602 | 27K | Frankie | 19 |
| HK Hong Kong | #89 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Frankie | 89 |
407,086 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling frank. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Frankie is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the male given name Frank, Francisco, Francis or Franklin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, ) Franky ['fraerjki]: männl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
English: 1 (m.) Pet form of FRANK . 2 (f.) Pet form of FRANCES , FRANCESCA , or FRANCINE . As a female name, it is perhaps most familiar as the name of the heroine of The Ballad of Frankie and Johnny , who ended up in the electric chair, ‘with the sweat running through her hair’. Top
as a word
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)
- Frankie Darrob. 1917USactor (1917-1976)
- Frankie Howerdb. 1917GBBritish actor, comedian (1917–1992)
- Frankie Thomasb. 1921USAmerican actor (1921-2006)
- Frankie Sakaib. 1929JPJapanese comedian (1929-1996)
- Frankie Avalonb. 1940USAmerican actor and singer
- Frankie Faisonb. 1949USAmerican actor
- Frankie Kazarianb. 1977USAmerican professional wrestler
- Frankie Edgarb. 1981USAmerican mixed martial artist (born 1981)
- Frankie Shawb. 1986USAmerican actress, writer, directress and comedian
- Frankie Adamsb. 1994WSNew Zealand actress and amateur boxer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24K | #1,043 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16K | #1,043 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 549 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 256 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 217 | #4,927 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 61 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 58 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58 | #60,128 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #15,161 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 31 | #3,266 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #19,691 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #6,880 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Is Frankie a male or female name?
- Frankie is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Frankie?
- In the etymology graph, Fanny, Franck and Francine are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Frank.
- Where does the name Frankie come from?
- ,9 Pet form of Frank, also sometimes of bFrances, Francesca, or }Francine. As a girl’s name, it is perhaps most familiar as the name of the heroine of The Ballad of Frankie and Johnny. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Frankie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 407 thousand people named Frank, more than in any other country we hold.
- What does the name Frankie mean?
- Recorded meaning: ,9 Pet form of Frank, also sometimes of bFrances, Francesca, or }Francine.
- How common is the name Frankie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 407,086 people named Frank in 2020, about 1 in 817 residents.
- How common is Frankie compared with other names?
- In the United States, Frankie is the 786th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frankieThe 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
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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, “Frankie” — the 786th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.