Frank

• enPR: frăngk, IPA^(key): /fɹæŋk/
• Rhymes: -æŋk
• Homophones: frank, franc

From Middle English Frank, partially from Old English Franca (“a Frank”); and partially from Old French Franc, and/or Latin Francus (“a Frank”), from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”); both from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). Cognate with Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), Old English franca (“spear, javelin”). Compare Saxon, ultimately a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“knife, dagger”).

Frank (plural Franks)

1. One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.

• Frankish
• Frankland

• franc
• France
• French
• Frenchify
• franchise
• Francia
• francisation, francization
• francise, francize (in Quebec; Oxford dictionary: )

The surname derives from the medieval tribal name. The given name is also a form of Francis, with formal given name status since the 19th century.

Frank

1. A male given name.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     Mrs. Ford. How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?

2. A diminutive of the male given name Francis
   • 1996 Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins, →ISBN, Chapter VII, page 197:

     Your name is Francis, is it?

     Frank, sir.

     Your name is Francis. There was never a St. Frank. That's a name for gangsters and politicians.

3. A surname​.

Frank

1. A male given name borrowed from English and German.

Frank m

1. A male given name.

• son of Frank: Franksson
• daughter of Frank: Franksdóttir

• IPA^(key): /fʁɑ̃k/

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Frank m

1. A male given name, cognate to English Frank.

• More often spelled Franck

From Old High German Franko (“a Frank”).

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• Rhymes: -aŋk

Frank

1. A surname​.
2. A male given name used in the Middle Ages and revived in the nineteenth century. Popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.

• IPA^(key): /fraŋ̊k/
• Rhymes: -aŋ̊k

Frank m

1. A male given name equivalent to English Frank.

From Latin Francia, from Francus (“Frank”).

yn Rank f (genitive ny Frank)

1. France
   • Haink eh noal ass yn Rank.
     • He came over from France.
   • Hooar eh baase 'sy Rank.
     • He got killed in France.
   • Ren ad troailt 'sy Rank as ayns yn Spaainey ny yei shen.
     • They travelled in France and then in Spain.
   • T'eh ceau yn geurey ayns jiass ny Frank.
     • He winters in the south of France.

• Always preceded by the definite article.

• Frangagh
• Frangish

From Latin Francus (“Frank”).

Frank m

1. A male given name, Manx equivalent to Francis.

From English or, rarely, English Frank, in the 19th century.

Frank

1. A male given name.

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 10 272 males with the given name Frank living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

Borrowed from English Frank.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾɐ̃k/, /ˈfɾɐ̃.ki/

Frank m

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Frank

• Franco

Frank c (genitive Franks)

1. A male given name borrowed from English or, rarely, from German.