Frants
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Frants Bartoshevich' Zhuk
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɹənts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Frants is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 17Kas Франц(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway≈1 in 156K
- SISlovenia1 in 115as Franc
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 Frants 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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 156K (inferred from the name graph)
18,316 named Franc, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Франц in UA Ukraine and Franz in US United States.
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)
Frants Bartoshevich' Zhuk. 1582.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frants 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | — | 18,316as Franc | 1 in 115 | 18K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 3,863as Franz | 1 in 86K | 12K | Franz | 11 |
| UA Ukraine | #321 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Франц | 18 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,865as Franz | 1 in 5.5K | 1.9K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 929as Franz | 1 in 228K | 929 | — | — |
| AL Albania | — | 340as Franc | 1 in 9K | 340 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 37as Franz | 1 in 9.5K | 37 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 156K | 482 | — | 1 |
18,316 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025. 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: SURS — resident population given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Frants 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 Latvian, Moderni ģērbies cilvēks (ar tieksmi uz pārspīlējumiem tērpā un uzvedībā)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Frants Rantzaub. 1555DE28 Aug 1555 - certain 21 Feb 1612
- Frants Diderik Bøeb. 1820NONorwegian painter (1820-1891)
- Frants Henningsenb. 1850DKDanish painter (1850-1908)
- Frants Buhlb. 1850DKDanish theologian (1850-1932)
- Frants Beyerb. 1851NOcomposer
- Frants Sukhoverkhovb. 1883RUpolitician (1883–1918)
- Charles Frisenfeldtb. 1889DKnot in their usual nameDanish wrestler (1889-1976)
- Frants Röntgenb. 1904NLDutch architect (1904-1980)
- Frants Guflerb. 1957DKDanish male curler and coach
- Franz Franzevich Zheludevichnot in their usual namePh.D. 1984
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 47 | #109,451 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #52,208 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Frants come from?
- Frants Bartoshevich' Zhuk. 1582. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Frants?
- A machine transcription gives /fɹənts/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Frants a male or female name?
- Frants is a male 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.
- What does the name Frants mean?
- Recorded meaning: Frants Bartoshevich' Zhuk.
- In which country does Frants have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Franc, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Frants?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 18,316 people named Franc in 2025, about 1 in 115 residents.
- How common is Frants compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Frants is the 321st most common given name of 85,149 given names 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/frantsThe 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, “Frants” — the 321st most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.