Francke
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/fɾance/(machine-generated) Spanish · 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.
- NLNetherlands1 in 25K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 35K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 35Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Francke
- Spanish:/fɾance/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Dutch and German Francke.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Francke is found
(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 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | — | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | 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)
- Peter Franckeb. 1897DEGerman screenwriter (1897-1978)
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
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?
- In Spanish /fɾance/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Francke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Francke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come South Africa, Netherlands, United States and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
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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 2026-10-13.