Franka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fra˦˨ŋka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Franka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 2K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 15K
- SISlovenia1 in 16K
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 Franka 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Franca in SI Slovenia.
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)
weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Franka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Franka | 9 |
| HR Croatia | #361 | 2,093 | 1 in 2K | 3.4K | Franka | 56 |
| US United States | — | 1,258as Franca | 1 in 264K | 1.3K | Franka | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,163as Franca | 1 in 182K | 1.8K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,140 | 1 in 15K | 1.1K | Franka | 11 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Franka | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 133 | 1 in 16K | 208 | Franca | 6 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Franka | 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Franka Rasmussenb. 1907DEGerman-born Danish textile artist
- Franka Hitzingb. 1966DEGerman politician
- Franka Dietzschb. 1968DEGerman discus thrower
- Franka Potenteb. 1974DEGerman actress
- Franka Muchb. 1975DEGerman actress and television presenter
- Joan Frankab. 1990NLDutch singer
- Franka Magalib. 1990FRathletics competitor
- Franka Vugecb. 1991Croatian figure skater
- Franka Anićb. 1991HRTaekwondo practitioner
- Franka Batelićb. 1992HRCroatian pop singer and songwriter
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 3.4K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 2.1K | #356 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.1K | #1,190 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 764 | #2,459 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 224 | #35,030 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 133 | #629 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 133 | #1,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #35,030 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 7 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #24,300 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Franka mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- What are other forms of the name Franka?
- In the etymology graph, Frances, Francisca and Fanny are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Franka?
- A machine transcription gives /fra˦˨ŋka/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Franka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Franka in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled franka.
- Where is Franka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Franka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- Is Franka a male or female name?
- Franka is a female 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.
- How common is the name Franka?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 2,093 people named Franka in 2021, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Franka compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Franka is the 361st most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Franka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frankaThe 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, “Franka” — the 361st most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.