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Baby name
Frank
Boy
Origin of the name
Frank goes back to the name of the Franks, the Germanic people, and to the sense of “free.” It is also a short form of Francis and Franklin.
Classic name
915,978births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 9rank at its peak, in 1918
Where babies named Frank are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Frank is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Frank is most common in New Jersey (2 times), New York (1.9) and Connecticut (1.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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