The FRANKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	29,531	1080	0.011	110
United States (1880 census)	4,854	1283	0.01	97
Change since 1880	+24677	+203	+0.001	+13
Other Countries
Australia	1,711	953	0.01	105
United Kingdom	5,661	1104	0.012	123

Top States for FRANKS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,023	879	0.014	145
California	2,098	1601	0.006	62
Ohio	1,923	669	0.017	169
Alabama	1,845	381	0.041	415
Tennessee	1,435	626	0.025	252
Top States for FRANKS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,845	381	0.041	415
Arkansas	892	378	0.033	334
Mississippi	939	468	0.033	330
Tennessee	1,435	626	0.025	252
Oklahoma	852	544	0.025	247

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.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one 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!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

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 USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FRANKS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FRANKS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FRANKS in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FRANKS by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FRANKS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FRANKS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FRANKS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FRANKS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	478	1.62
White (Hispanic)	434	1.47
Native American/Alaskan	219	0.74
Asian/Pacific	124	0.42
White (Caucasian)	24,853	84.16
Black/African American	3,423	11.59

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FRANKS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to FRANKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FRANKS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.