Fraenkel
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɹæɛŋkəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fraenkel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 1.7Kas פרנקל(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 46Kas Frankel
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 56Kas Frankel
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 Fraenkel 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
- 385 (measured from records)
- 1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
7,253 named Frankel, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Frankel in US United States, GB United Kingdom, JM Jamaica and 1 more, פרנקל in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 1 more 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fraenkel 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 | — | 7,253as Frankel | 1 in 46K | 7.3K | Frankel | 385 |
| IL Israel | #120 | 5,182as פרנקל | 1 in 1.7K | 5.2K | פרנקל | 67 |
| RO Romania | #339 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | פרנקל | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | listed | Frankel | 114 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 81K | listed | Frenkel | 80 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | פרנקל | 11 |
| LB Lebanon | #864 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | פרנקל | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Frankel | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 74 | 1 in 79K | 74 | Frankel | 21 |
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 bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register; the dfa-band-4 register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bernhard Fraenkelb. 1836DEGerman university professor and physician (1836–1911)
- Albert Fraenkelb. 1848DEGerman physician (1848-1916)
- Albert Fraenkelb. 1864DEGerman physician (1864-1938)
- Ernst Fraenkelb. 1881DEGerman linguist (1881-1957)
- Eduard Fraenkelb. 1888DEGerman-British classical philologist (1888–1970)
- Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkelb. 1891ILIsraeli mathematician (1891-1965)
- Heinrich Fraenkelb. 1897GBauthor (1897–1986)
- Ernst Fraenkelb. 1898DEpolitical scientist (1898-1975)
- Aviezri Fraenkelb. 1929ILmathematician
- Baroness Deech Ruth Deechb. 1943GBnot in their usual nameBritish academic, lawyer and bioethicist (born 1943)
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 184 | #92,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 183 | #98,982 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 74 | #7,367 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| 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)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Fraenkel?
- A machine transcription gives /fɹæɛŋkəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fraenkel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Frankel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Fraenkel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fraenkel is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 79 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fraenkel?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 74 people named Fraenkel, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
- How common is Fraenkel compared with other names?
- In Israel, Fraenkel is the 120th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fraenkel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fraenkelThe 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, “Fraenkel” — the 120th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.