Franke

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Franko and Franki [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Franko

Grammar

Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Franke
Genitive: Frankes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Franke
Genitive: Frankes

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 59 people were named Franke (percentage of first or only given name: 25 %) [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
73 114 0 2 73 112
Denmark Denmark[6]
1
n.a.
0
n.a.
1
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Franke.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/