Frankie

Frankie (also spelled Franky) is a personal name (or, depending on which definition of "personal name" one uses, part of a personal name), both male and female. It is sometimes a given name (or "first name"), but more often it is hypocorism (affectionate variation of a personal name) which takes the place of a given name, usually Frank or Francis (for males) or Frances or Francine (for females).

People and things named Frankie (or variants) include:

People

• Francisco Rodríguez (Venezuelan pitcher) (born 1982), Venezuelan professional baseball relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball
• Frankie Abernathy (1981–2007), American MTV Real World cast member
• Frankie Avalon (born 1940), American actor, singer and teen idol
• Frankie Boyle (born 1972), Scottish comedian
• Frankie Darro (1917–1976), 1940s teen actor
• Frankie Faison (born 1949), American actor
• Frankie Foster, a fictional character in the animated TV series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
• Frankie Frisch (1898–1973), baseball player
• Frankie Giorgi (born 1981), Australian kickboxer
• Frankie Grande (born 1983), an American producer, actor, singer, dancer, and contestant on the TV series Big Brother
• Frankie Howerd (1917–1992), English comedian
• Frankie Jonas (born 2000), American actor
• Frankie Kennedy (1955–1994), Irish musician
• Frankie Knuckles (born 1955), American DJ
• Frankie Laine (1913-2007), American singer, songwriter and actor
• Frankie Lam (born 1967), Hong Kong actor
• Frankie Lymon (1942–1968), African-American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer
• Frankie Manning (1914–2009), American dancer
• Frankie Miller (born 1949), English singer songwriter
• Frankie Muniz (born 1985), American actor
• Frankie Sandford (born 1989), English singer of S Club 8 and The Saturdays
• Frankie Thomas (1921–2006), American actor
• Frankie Valli (born 1934), American pop singer
• Frankie Vaughan (1928–1999), English pop singer

Fictional characters

• Franky (One Piece), in the anime and manga series One Piece
• Frankie Foster, in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends American animated television series
• Frankie Hathaway, in the The Haunted Hathaways American television series
• Frankie Osborne, in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
• Frankie Stein, daughter of Frankenstein and character in the Monster High American fashion doll franchise
• Franky Andrade, of Yo Soy Franky, Colombian television series.

In music

• Frankie J (born 1976), stage name of Mexican American singer Francisco Javier Bautista, Jr., formerly of Kumbia Kings
• Frankie Hi-NRG MC (born 1969), Italian rapper
• "Frankie and Johnny" (song), also known as "Frankie", or "Frankie and Albert", a traditional American popular song
• "Frankie" (song), by Sister Sledge
• "Frankie", a song by Betty Blowtorch from Are You Man Enough?
• "Frankie", a song by Connie Francis released as the B-side of "Lipstick on Your Collar"
• "Frankie" a song by Bruce Springsteen from Tracks
• Frankie, an indie pop musician from Los Angeles, California

Films

• Frankie, a 1939 film released as Back Door to Heaven
• Frankie (2007 film), a French film starring Diane Kruger

Other uses

• Frankie (TV series), a 2013 drama series from the BBC starring Eve Myles as title character Frankie Maddox
• Frankie (magazine), a bi-monthly Australian magazine
• Frankie, macaw mascot of American professional wrestler Koko B. Ware
• Frankie, a type of Mumbai street food