Frauke
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Frauke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., friesische und nieder deutsche Koseform unklarer Herkunft (zu ahd.
- DEGermany≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- BEBelgium≈1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weibl. Vom., friesische und nieder deutsche Koseform unklarer Herkunft (zu ahd. frouwa »Frau, Herrin« oder zu ahd. frawa- »fröhlich, heiter«).
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frauke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #540 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | listed | Frauke | 179 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 5 | Frauke | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 186 | 1 in 93K | 186 | Frauke | 30 |
| US United States | — | 180 | 1 in 1.8M | 180 | Frauke | 126 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Frauke | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Frauke | 25 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Frauke is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Low German: originally a byname representing a diminutive formation from the vocabulary word Frau lady (Middle High German vrouwe , Old High German frouwa ; Old Saxon fr a ). It has also been used as a pet form of Veronika (see VERONICA ), because of the similarity in sound. In the 1960s it came to be commonly used as an independent given name in German-speaking countries.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frauke Tenglerb. 1948DEGerman politician
- Frauke Nahrgangb. 1951DEGerman children's writer
- Frauke Sandigb. 1961DEGerman film director
- Frauke Kuhlmannb. 1966DEGerman association football player
- Frauke Heiligenstadtb. 1966DEGerman SPD politician
- Frauke Eickhoffb. 1967DEGerman judoka
- Frauke Petryb. 1975DEGerman politician
- Frauke Finsterwalderb. 1975DEGerman film director
- Frauke Dirickxb. 1980BEvolleyball player
- Frauke KolbmüllerDEfilm producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Frauke mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., friesische und nieder deutsche Koseform unklarer Herkunft (zu ahd.
- Is Frauke a male or female name?
- Frauke is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Frauke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Frauke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frauke.
- How common is the name Frauke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 186 people named Frauke, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
- How common is Frauke compared with other names?
- In Germany, Frauke is the 540th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fraukeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Frauke” — the 540th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.