The FRANK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	65,918	454	0.024	244
United States (1880 census)	17,170	322	0.034	343
Change since 1880	+48748	-132	-0.01	-99
Other Countries
Australia	808	2012	0.005	49
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for FRANK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	5,634	239	0.030	297
California	5,305	562	0.016	157
Florida	4,111	424	0.026	257
Pennsylvania	3,938	258	0.032	321
Ohio	3,498	306	0.031	308
Top States for FRANK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Montana	598	98	0.066	663
North Dakota	405	91	0.063	631
Wisconsin	3,120	95	0.058	582
Alaska	313	176	0.050	499
Minnesota	2,151	146	0.044	437

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FRANK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FRANK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FRANK in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FRANK by picking someone at random in Montana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FRANK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FRANK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FRANK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FRANK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	883	1.34
Asian/Pacific	461	0.7
White (Caucasian)	57,144	86.69
Black/African American	4,865	7.38
Native American/Alaskan	1,384	2.1
White (Hispanic)	1,173	1.78

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FRANK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to FRANK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FRANK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.