Franck
Franck is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
- French
Meaning & Origin of Franck
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Franck is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- French
The Story of Franck
Franck first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1972, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1997: 9 births, good for #6,100 nationwide. About 33% of every Franck on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Franck last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 174 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Franck
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Franck. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Franck
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About the name Franck
Franck is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1972 and has accumulated 174 births in the dataset. Franck's peak popularity came in 1997 when it ranked #6,100. Use the chart and map above to compare Franck's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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