Surname statistics for Frank

There are approximately 4,892 people named Frank in the UK. That makes it the 2,142nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 77 are named Frank.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)48922142N/A77
United Kingdom (1881 census)126332420.00442
Change since 1881+3629+1100+0.004+35
Other Countries
United States65918454N/A244
Australia8082012N/A49

Politics

People with the surname Frank are slightly more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Frank are:

  1. Conservative (1)
  2. Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Frank
Peter Frank
Michael Frank
Andrew Frank
Richard Frank
John Frank
Thomas Frank
Robert Frank
Lukas Frank
Charles Frank
Alexander Frank
Timothy Frank
Simon Frank
Howard Frank
William Frank
Nicholas Frank
Philip Frank
Ian Frank
James Frank
Jonathan Frank

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Frank
Susan Frank
Karen Frank
Caroline Frank
Carole Frank
Barbara Frank
Gita Frank
Marion Frank
Valerie Frank
Ruth Frank
Charlotte Frank
Harriet Frank
Lori Frank
Linda Frank
Amanda Frank
Lina Frank
Anita Frank
Marie Frank
Mary Frank
Josephine Frank

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.