Fraenkel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/fɾaˈenkel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Fraenkel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Fraenkel is also written פרנקל in Hebrew and Френкель in Cyrillic.
- DKDenmark1 in 79K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 1.7Kas פרנקל
- JMJamaica≈1 in 27Kfew recordsas 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)
- Record sources
- 385 (measured from records)
- 1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
7,253 named Frankel, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Fraenkel in other scripts: Latin, Hebrew and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Frankel in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 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.
How to pronounce Fraenkel
- Spanish:/fɾaˈenkel/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
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 the surname Fraenkel is found
(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 |
| 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 |
| 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)- Eduard Fraenkelb. 1888DEGerman-British classical philologist (1888–1970)
- Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkelb. 1891ILIsraeli mathematician (1891-1965)
- Ernst Fraenkelb. 1898DEpolitical scientist (1898-1975)
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Fraenkel?
- In Spanish /fɾaˈenkel/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fraenkel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Frankel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Israel, United Kingdom, Germany and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
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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” — ranked 4855th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.