Frankl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from Franken; diminutive with -l suffix
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɹæŋkəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Frankl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 202K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 350K
- USUnited States1 in 631K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 202K (inferred from the name graph)
527 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Toponymic surname from Franken; diminutive with -l suffix. Bearers: 411.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frankl 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 | 527 | 1 in 631K | 564 | Frankl | 19 |
| CZ Czechia | 53 | 1 in 202K | 53 | Frankl | 11 |
| PL Poland | 17 | 1 in 2.3M | 12 | Frankl | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 13 | 1 in 902K | 13 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 6 | 1 in 350K | 6 | — | — |
527 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Frankl is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname of origin from a place/region name. Bearer count 411.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)
- Ludwig August von Franklb. 1810CZAustrian poet and writer (1810–1894)
- Paul Franklb. 1878DEGerman art historian (1878–1962)
- Adolf Franklb. 1903ATAustrian painter (1903-1983)
- Viktor Franklb. 1905ATAustrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
- Felix Franklb. 1905ATAustrian physicist (1905–1961)
- Wolfgang Franklb. 1907ITItalian architect
- Maria Koterbskab. 1924PLnot in their usual namePolish singer (1924-2021)
- Peter Franklb. 1935GBHungarian-born British pianist
- Paulette Franklb. 1937USAmerican artist and writer
- Péter Franklb. 1953HUHungarian mathematician and street performer in Japan (b.1953)
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 564 | #41,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 527 | #41,303 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 483 | #42,289 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 53 | #28,016 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 53 | #10,319 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 13 | #61,037 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #119,923 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 6 | #25,131 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #196,800 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Frankl come from?
- Toponymic surname from Franken; diminutive with -l suffix. Bearers: 411. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Frankl?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɹæŋkəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Frankl mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from Franken; diminutive with -l suffix.
- In which country does Frankl have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 527 people named Frankl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frankl.
- Where is Frankl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Frankl is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 202 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Frankl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 527 people named Frankl in 2010, about 1 in 631 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Frankl?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/franklThe 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, “Frankl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.