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franken Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: patronymic from Frank.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic) variant of Frank. In some cases it may be a shortened form of the various Jewish ornamental compound names beginning with German Franken ‘Franconian’.

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Distribution of franken Families in the US in 1920
Number of franken families
 21-39
 8-20
 1-7
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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