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FRANK
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Franklin, FRANKLYN means "freeman."
Surname or Lastname
German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovenian, Czech, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovenian, Czech, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ethnic or regional name for someone from Franconia (German Franken), a region of southwestern Germany so called from its early settlement by the Franks, a Germanic people who inhabited the lands around the river Rhine in Roman times. In the 6th–9th centuries, under leaders such as Clovis I (c. 466–511) and Charlemagne (742–814), the Franks established a substantial empire in western Europe, from which the country of France takes its name. The term Frank in eastern Mediterranean countries was used, in various vernacular forms, to denote the Crusaders and their descendants, and the American surname may also be an Americanized form of such a form.English, Dutch, German, etc. : from the personal name Frank, in origin an ethnic name for a Frank. This also came be used as an adjective meaning ‘free’, ‘open-hearted’, ‘generous’, deriving from the fact that in Frankish Gaul only people of Frankish race enjoyed the status of fully free men.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : status name for someone who lived on a piece of land held without obligations of rent or service, from Anglo-Norman French frank ‘free’ (see Frank 2) + Middle English land ‘land’. Compare Freeland.
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English
English : variant spelling of Franklin.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the personal name Francis (Old French form Franceis, Latin Franciscus, Italian Francisco). This was originally an ethnic name meaning ‘Frank’ and hence ‘Frenchman’. The personal name owed much of its popularity during the Middle Ages to the fame of St. Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), whose baptismal name was actually Giovanni but who was nicknamed Francisco because his father was absent in France at the time of his birth. As an American family name this has absorbed cognates from several other European languages (for forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).Jewish (American) : an Americanization of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames, or an adoption of the non-Jewish surname.
Male
English
 English name originally derived from the name of a Germanic tribe called the Franks, FRANK means "French." It is also used as a short form of Franklin "freeman" and Francis "French."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Frank.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from the Middle English word frankeleyn, FRANKLIN means "freeman."Â
Girl/Female
Australian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Netherlands, Polish, Swedish
Free Woman; A Frank; From the Frankish Empire; From France
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Latin, Swedish
Free; Diminutive of Frank Free; Frankie is Occasionally Used for Girls; French Man; A Man Form France
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English
English : variant spelling of Francom.
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English (chiefly Bristol)
English (chiefly Bristol) : status name from the Anglo-Norman French feudal term franchomme ‘free man’ (see Free), composed of the elements franc ‘free’ (see Frank 2) + homme ‘man’ (Latin homo). The spelling has been altered as the result of folk etymological association with the common English place name endings -combe and -ham.
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English (but most common in Wales)
English (but most common in Wales) : from Lowis, Lodovicus, a Norman personal name composed of the Germanic elements hlod ‘fame’ + wīg ‘war’. This was the name of the founder of the Frankish dynasty, recorded in Latin chronicles as Ludovicus and Chlodovechus (the latter form becoming Old French Clovis, Clouis, Louis, the former developing into German Ludwig). The name was popular throughout France in the Middle Ages and was introduced to England by the Normans. In Wales it became inextricably confused with 2.Welsh : from an Anglicized form of the personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn).Irish and Scottish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’, which was the name of a Celtic god.Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Lewis was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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English
English : status name for someone who lived on a piece of land held without obligations of rent or service, from Old English frēo ‘free’ + land ‘land’. Compare Frankland.
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English and German
English and German : patronymic from Frank.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname for someone who behaved in a masterful manner, or an occupational name for someone who was master of his craft or a schoolmaster, from Middle English maister (Old French maistre, Latin magister). In early instances this surname was often borne by people who were franklins or other substantial freeholders, presumably because they had laborers under them to work their lands. In Scotland Master was the title given to administrators of medieval hospitals, as well as being born by the eldest sons of barons; thus, the surname may also have been acquired as a metonymic occupational name by someone in the service of such.Either a dialect form or an Americanized form of German Meister.Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city) : Parsi occupational name for someone who was a master of his craft, from the English word master.
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German
German : occupational name for a falconer, Middle High German vakenoere. In medieval times falconry was a sport practised only by the nobility; it was the task of the falconer to look after the birds and train young ones.English : variant spelling of Faulkner.Daniel Falckner (1666–c.1745), German Lutheran pastor and agent for the Frankfurt Land Company, founded the first German Lutheran congregation in America.
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English
English : status name from Middle English frankelin ‘franklin’, a technical term of the feudal system, from Anglo-Norman French franc ‘free’ (see Frank 2) + the Germanic suffix -ling. The status of the franklin varied somewhat according to time and place in medieval England; in general, he was a free man and a holder of fairly extensive areas of land, a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.The surname is also borne by Jews, in which case it represents an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.In modern times, this has been used to Americanize François, the French form of Francis.The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated in about 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French, German
Free; From France; Free Land Owner; Diminutive of Frank Free; A Free Man; Frankie is Occasionally Used for Girls
Male
English
Unisex pet form of English Frances and Francis, both FRANKIE means "French."
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Frank
n.
Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication.
a.
Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.
n.
The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.
n.
The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.
a.
Not frankable; incapable of being sent free by public conveyance.
n.
Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.
v. t.
To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
n.
A Salian Frank.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called.
n.
An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9.
n.
Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
a.
Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic.
n.
A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.
n.
A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary.
adv.
In a frank manner; freely.
a.
Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.
a.
Producing or bearing frankincense.
imp. & p. p.
of Frank