Comments for FRANK (1):

Famous bearer: Frank Iero, the guitarist of the band My Chemical Romance.

-- jessnothingless  8/2/2005

Frank Kennedy is Scarlett's second husband in Gone with the Wind.

-- Anonymous User  11/9/2005

Frank is not the right name for a little boy. It makes me think of an old grandad hobbling around with a walking stick.

-- Anonymous User  12/28/2005

Frank Barone is Ray Barone's father in the T.V. show "Everybody Loves Raymond." He is played by Peter Boyle.

-- breakofday  12/29/2005

Frank McCourt wrote the famous memoir of his life, "Angela's Ashes". As a child, he was called Frankie.

-- Anonymous User  1/12/2006

Frank is in the same family as names such as Henry, Frederick, and George. All classy and sophisticated names in my opinion. I'm tired of the fluffy names that have been so popular the past 5-8 years. It would be refreshing to see baby boys with good strong names.

-- Anonymous User  2/1/2006

This is the name of the demented bunny in "Donnie Darko."

-- patchworkgirl  2/23/2006

Frank Peretti is a famous Christian bearer of this name. He wrote "This Present Darkness" and "Piercing the Darkness".

-- avalah  5/20/2006

Frank Lampard is a football-player, who plays with Chelsea F.C. and for the England squad. Frank Ribery is another football-player who plays for France.

-- emeraldstar  7/10/2006

Frank Lampard's dad is also called Frank and he himself was a one-time footballer in the Seventies and Eighties.

-- freeserve.co.uk  9/17/2007

Frank Lambert is JT, Al and Brendanīs father in popular TV show "Step by Step". He played is Patrick Duffy.

-- Maggie_Simpson  7/26/2006

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an influential and well-known American architect.

-- Laurea  8/10/2006

"So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" is a song by Simon and Garfunkel. It appeared on their album Bridge Over Troubled Water (released in 1970)--very fitting, since the song is a veiled goodbye to Art Garfunkel from Paul Simon, and Bridge Over Troubled Water was their final album of new material.

-- WeloveyouJesseLacey  8/20/2006

Listen to the German pronunciation of Frank here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

-- _satu_  10/24/2006

Frank Edwin Wright III is the birth name of Green Day's drummer, Tre' Cool.

-- JessicaMichelle  6/11/2007

From Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dr. Frank'N'Furter's name is often shortened to Frank.

-- Anonymous User  6/29/2007

It's the surname of the famous diarist Anne Frank.

-- myhopscotch  6/29/2007

The name Frank does not come from a spear but the throwing axe favored by the Franks known as the Francisca.
http://therionarms.com/reenact/therionarms_c399.html

-- History Geek  7/12/2007

Frank Longbottom is Neville Longbottom's father in the Harry Potter series. He was tortured into insanity, via the Cruciatus Curse, by Bellatrix Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, and Barty Crouch, Jr.

-- Anonymous User  9/1/2007

I learned in history a little bit about the Franks, and the book I was learning from said that Frank meant free.

-- moonfaced  10/9/2007

Francesco "Frank" Capra was a famous American film director of the 20th century, best known for his inspirational, up-lifting films It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Francis "Frank" O'Hara was a key member of the New York school of poetry in the mid-20th century. Among his best-known works are "Why I Am Not a Painter" and "The Day Lady Died."

Frank Loesser was a successful composer and lyricist. He wrote the classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside," and the scores to the musicals Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, among others.

-- sarescent  10/10/2007

The tribe of the Franks as mentioned did not only settle in what is called France / Netherlands (this was West Franken) but also in nowadays southern Germany (this was Ost [= East] Franken).

There is still a German region called Franken with its regional capital city of Nuremberg. The Franks of today do not like to be called Bavarians, even if they live in the federal state of Bavaria.

-- FoxtrottBravo  2/20/2008

In the comic strip "Garfield" There was a boy named Frank who was only mentioned in one book.

-- Anonymous User  3/25/2008

Frank "Windy" Cahill, killed by Billy the Kid.

-- welovejamesarness  7/15/2008

Comments for FRANK (2):

Frank (born Francis) Sinatra is a famous bearer.

-- Anonymous User  12/22/2005

Frank is also used as a nickname for Franklin.

-- CoBy  4/22/2006

The character of Frank Pike, who was often referred to as "stupid boy" in the British sitcom Dad's Army.

-- Anonymous User  8/28/2006

Listen to the German pronunciation of Frank here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

-- _satu_  10/24/2006

I think this would be a good name for a girl, if you thought of it as the word "Frank" as in "be Frank".

-- Anonymous User  1/20/2007

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