Frank
The name means "free", carried down from the Germanic Franks tribe. Only about 1,300 men in Poland go by it, so most people here have never met one.
Frank Pronunciation
Frank is pronounced FRAHNK (/frank/).
What Frank means
Where Frank comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Frank comes from the Franks, a Germanic people whose tribal name gave English its word for free. Within the Frankish realm, belonging to the tribe meant liberty, and that bond between a people and their freedom lodged in the name. Its short meaning stays close to that source. Free, and in Polish wolny.
The Franks were no legend. Their kings ruled much of western Europe after Rome fell, and France still wears their name today. English later took "frank" as a word for open, honest speech, the plain talk once expected of a free man rather than a subject.
In German and English alike the name kept one clean shape, without diminutives or softened variants. Read out at a Polish imieniny, it gives back its oldest sense: a free man, wolny.
How many people are named Frank
1 in 16332 men in Poland is named Frank. 1,307 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #851 among male names.
Frank's popularity over time
8 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #769 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2004.
Where Frank is most popular
Frank is most popular in Pomeranian, 231% above the national average (7 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+202%) and Lublin (+172%). It is least common in Silesian, 39% below average.
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Pomeranian7 boys born+231%
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Opole2 boys born+202%
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Lublin4 boys born+172%
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Masovian9 boys born+77%
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Lesser Poland5 boys born+54%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2 boys born+27%
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Silesian2 boys born−39%
Frank as a middle name
Frank is a first name for 1,307 men in Poland and a middle name for another 450, a 74/26 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 333rd, between Jonathan (452) and Karl (448).
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331
453Hilary
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332
452Jonathan
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333450Frank
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334
448Karl
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335
445Edgar