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Frankie-Lee

Gender
Mostly boys
Say it
FRANG-kee-LEE
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#2,742 for boys

Frankie-Lee is a name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,742nd for boys in the UK (8 babies).

What does Frankie-Lee mean?

Modern: combination of Frankie and Lee

Combines Frankie with Lee, an English surname from Old English leah, a woodland clearing.

Is Frankie-Lee a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Frankie-Lee has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the UK.

How popular is Frankie-Lee in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,742nd among boys
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 37,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steady down 9% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 8 boys in the UK were named Frankie-Lee, making it the 2,742nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,052nd. Its busiest year was 2015, with 20 boys.

2025 had fewer boys named Frankie-Lee than any year since 2010.

Half of all the boys named Frankie-Lee in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2023, 24% of the babies named Frankie-Lee in the UK were girls.

Among boys in 2025, it was 2,658th in England and Wales.

1999Busiest: 20 in 20152025
Frankie-Lee in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20258#2,742
202410#2,328
202313#1,917
202210#2,279
202112#1,969
202011#2,052
201911#2,102
201812#1,981
201716#1,649
201611#2,143
201520#1,367
201417#1,511
201312#1,901
201211#2,080
201113#1,788
20107#2,775
20096#2,970
20086#2,906
20070–
20060–
20050–
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19993#3,043

Nicknames for Frankie-Lee

Names like Frankie-Lee

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Frankie-Lee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/frankie-lee, updated 20 October 2026.