Frank
Frank is ranked 468th among boys in 2024 (656 births). Its best rank was 6th, in 1880–1892, 1895.
- Rank in 2024
- #468up 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6560.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 191817,018 births
- Best rank
- #6first in 1880
- Since 1880
- 920,009people given the name
The story in the numbers
915,398 boys have been named Frank in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 17,018 births — 1.7% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 656 births in 2024, against 17,018 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 109 of them in the top 100 and 43 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,611 girls have also been given it, 0.50% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Frank | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 30,967 | |
| 1890s | 28,718 | |
| 1900s | 29,046 | |
| 1910s | 116,017 | |
| 1920s | 151,830 | |
| 1930s | 108,088 | |
| 1940s | 119,420 | |
| 1950s | 112,321 | |
| 1960s | 87,150 | |
| 1970s | 46,920 | |
| 1980s | 33,603 | |
| 1990s | 23,967 | |
| 2000s | 14,475 | |
| 2010s | 9,479 | |
| 2020s | 3,397 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Frank was the 9th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Frank
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Georgepeak 1921
- Arthurpeak 1921
- Claudepeak 1920
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Lymanpeak 1917
- Walterpeak 1918
- Budpeak 1928
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.