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Franck

Boys' name

Form of Frank

Franck has been given to 174 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Franck, 2024

1 in 478,000

Franck over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Franck: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Frank

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Franck means

Franck is a form of Frank.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Franck is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /fʁɑ̃k/ for Franck.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Franck → Frank → Francis. The family’s meaning is “French(man)”, recorded in English with the source elements Franciscus.

Origin, language, and formation

Franck is used in English and French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frank.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Franck is pronounced /fʁɑ̃k/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 174 boys were recorded with the name Franck between 1972 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1997; its best national rank was #4,617 in 1972.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Franck?

Franck had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Franck sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Franck. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Francks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Franck was born before 2008 — so the typical Franck is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
174
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Franck rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (9)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,617
1972

Spellings of Franck

Franck is not the most common spelling — Frank is, with 74.3% against Franck's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Franck around the world

Where Franck ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • France
    1900–2025
    #2,110
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Franck by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,617
1972
Peak year
1997
9 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
174
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Franck

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

FrandyFrankoFraserFrasierFrazerFrantzFrankiFranceFransFrankeFrankeyFranFrankyFranchotFranciszekFrazierFranzFrancisoFrabianFrankinFrancoisFranklenFrancoFrak

Sibling names for Franck

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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