Baby name

STABLE BOY · MIDDLE ENGLISH
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Franklin

/FRANK · lin/


“Free landholder”

From Middle English frankeleyn meaning 'free landholder', a person of free but not noble birth.

frank

strongelegant

How it ages.

Presidential and dignified, carries Roosevelt associations in America.

The cultural moment.

Steady in the US; the presidential heritage keeps it in occasional use without making it fashionable.