Frankie was originally a diminutive of Frank, Francis or Frances. These names all go back to the Latin name [Franciscus] meaning ‘Frenchman’, meaning the tribe of the Franks, who settled in what is today France.
Frankie is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to boys than to girls.
Few children have been named Frankie in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 16 out of 100,000 children are currently called Frankie. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Frankie at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Frankie is number *** on the list of most common first names.
Frankie was originally a diminutive of Frank, Francis or Frances. These names all go back to the Latin name [Franciscus] meaning ‘Frenchman’, meaning the tribe of the Franks, who settled in what is today France.
Frankie was ... originally more popular as a girl's name. This changed around 1940 and back again around 2010.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their child Frankie annualy. This means that there have been children named Frankie who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus people named Frankie have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Frankie even more than any other time: in 1945, it holds its present record of #350 in the ranking of the most popular first names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Frankie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Frankie has never been ranked higher than #350. In 2022, it rivaled the 831 names that preceded it on the list. In total, 562 children named Frankie were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Frankie were born, there have been 507 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for given names: only 1.3% of all common first names in the US begin with an F. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With seven letters, the name Frankie has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.5% of all first names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Frankie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Frankie, you can simply say:
Fox
Rocket
Apple
Nut
Koala
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Frankie
Frankie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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R
A
N
K
I
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
F
R
A
N
K
I
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Frankie sounds like this:
