Frank
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Frank
A Top 10 name from the 1880s until the 1920s, Frank has been falling for decades but last year reversed course for the first time in a century, edging up the popularity list a few notches. And Frank still has a certain warm, friendly real-guy grandpa flavor that could come back into style, like other such choices as Jake and Jack.
Maybe thanks to Sinatra, it's become a new hipster favorite with such couples as Diana Krall and Elvis Costello. Along with Sinatra, Frank has a wide variety of interesting namesakes, including architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry, artist Frank Stella, director Frank Capra, musician Frank Zappa, and Muppeteer/director Frank Oz, to name a few. Musician Frank Ocean was born Christopher Breaux.
It's worth noting that despite its long decline, Frank has always remained in the Top 500 for boys. Also, the newly-cool girls' nickname-name Frankie may have given brother Frank a style boost.
Frank is also given to girls.
Pronounced FRANK.
As of October 2026, Frank ranked #514 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #6 in 1882, Nameberry popularity #370.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #336 | 991 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #355 | 944 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #353 | 957 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #373 | 890 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #392 | 807 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #403 | 773 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #427 | 694 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #444 | 691 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #440 | 708 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #469 | 648 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #468 | 656 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #514 | 584 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Frank on lists
Famous Franks
- Frank FabraBoy
Colombian footballer
- Francis Albert "Frank" SinatraBoy
American singer and actor
- Frank Anthony WilczekBoy
American physicist & Nobel prize winner
- (Lyman) Frank BaumBoy
American children's novelist
- Frank Joslyn BaumBoy
American novelist & film producer; son of L. Frank Baum
- Frank Billings KelloggBoy
45th U.S. Secretary of State
- Frank Macfarlane BurnetBoy
Australian virologist and Nobel Prize winner
- Frank Sherwood RowlandBoy
American chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Frank Vincent ZappaBoy
American musician
- Frank LangellaBoy
American actor
- Frank Edwin Wright IIIBoy
aka Tre Cool, American musician of Green Day
- Frank Anthony IeroBoy
American musician of My Chemical Romance and The Cellabration
- Christopher Francis "Frank" Ocean (born Christopher Edwin Breaux)Boy
American singer,songwriter
- Frank William ZomboBoy
American football player
- Franklin Delano "Frank" GoreBoy
American football player
- Frank Tayo OmiyaleBoy
American football player
- Frank "Grey Wolf" SalsedoBoy
Native American actor
- Francis Edward "Frank" TurnerBoy
English singer,songwriter
- Frank Black aka Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IVBoy
American singer,songwriter of Black Francis and The Pixies
- Frank Frederick Borman Jr.Boy
American astronaut
- Jonah Frank KingBoy
son of journalists Dana Bash and John King
- Frank FritzBoy
American antiquer and TV personality ("American Pickers")
- Frank DillaneBoy
English actor
- Frank Harlan James Costello (b. 2006)Boy
son of English musician Elvis Costello and Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall
- Frank GioiaBoy
aka CrankthatFrank, American YouTuber
Frank in pop culture
- Frank ReynoldsBoy
character on FXX's "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
- Francis "Frank" UnderwoodBoy
character on Netflix's "House of Cards"
- Frank ZhangBoy
son of Mars in the Heroes of Olympus series
- Frank HardyBoy
one of the Hardy Boys, brother of Joe Hardy
- Frank SunderlandBoy
character in the game "Silent Hill 4"
- Frank ColridgeBoy
character in the game "Silent Hill: Downpour"
- Frank BreitkopfBoy
character on CBS' "Criminal Minds"
- Frank BaroneBoy
character on CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond"
- Frank BlossomBoy
character from ITV's "The Worst Witch"
- Frank JacksonBoy
character in movie "Big Fat Liar"
- Frank HargateBoy
main character in G. A. Henty's "By Sheer Pluck"
- FrankBoy
character in movie "The Invention of Lying"
- Frank 'Grimey' GrimesBoy
one,time character on "The Simpsons"
- Frank JamesonBoy
character in novelette "Beguiling" by Liam Holt
- FrankBoy
1st King of Narnia in 'The Magician's Nephew' by C.S. Lewis
- Francis "Frank" DelfinoBoy
character on ABC's "How to Get Away with Murder"
- Frank WheatleyBoy
character in the film "Sling Blade"
- Frank SahwitBoy
character from 'Ace Attorney'
- Frank ReaganBoy
character on CBS' "Blue Bloods"
- Frank KennedyBoy
character from "Gone with the Wind"
- Frank WyattBoy
main character in G. A. Henty's "Through Russian Snows"
- Frank LongbottomBoy
Neville Longbottom's father in the Harry Potter Series
- Frank Castle A.K.A. The PunisherBoy
character from Marvel Comics
- Vernon Francis "Frank" GallagherBoy
main character on Showtime's "Shameless"
- Frank VanderboomBoy
character in Rusty Lake: Roots
- Frank HeffleyBoy
a character from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Frank LambertBoy
character on ABC TGIF sitcom "Step by Step"
- Frank ColumboBoy
main character on the crime drama series "Columbo" from Wikipedia it says about the character of Columbo that:
- "Columbo's first name has never officially been identifiedBoy
although the name "Frank Columbo" has been visible on pieces of identification throughout the show's history."
- Frank DrebinBoy
main character in "The Naked Gun" Film series, played by Leslie Nielsen
- Frank CrossBoy
main character in the 1988 Christmas Comedy Film "Scrooged"