Frankie

Frankie, also spelled Franky, is sometimes a given name, but more often it is a hypocorism, an affectionate variation of a personal name, usually Frank or Francis (for males) or Frances or Francine (for females).

People and things named Frankie (or variants) include:

People

• Frankie Abernathy (1981–2007), American MTV Real World cast member
• Frankie Avalon (born 1940), American actor, singer and teen idol
• Frankie Ballard (born 1982), American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
• Frankie Boyle (born 1972), Scottish comedian
• Frankie Carle (1903–2001), American pianist and bandleader
• Frankie Crosetti (1910–2002), American baseball player
• Frankie Cutlass (born 1971), American hip-hop producer, DJ, and rapper
• Frankie Darro (1917–1976), American actor and stuntman
• Frankie Faison (born 1949), American actor
• 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 Luvu (born 1996), American football player
• 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
• Francisco Rodríguez (Venezuelan pitcher) (born 1982), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Frankie Sandford (born 1989), English singer of S Club 8 and The Saturdays
• Frankie Shaw (born 1986), American actress
• 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
• Franky Andrade, of Yo Soy Franky, a Colombian television series
• Frankie Bergstein, in the Grace and Frankie, an American comedy web television series
• Frankie Cheeks, in the movie Final Destination 3
• Frankie Foster, a major recurring character in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends American animated television series
• Frankie Hathaway, in 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

In music

• Frankie Bridge, (born 1989), English singer-songwriter
• 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, an indie pop musician from Los Angeles, California
• "Frankie" (Connie Francis song), a song by Connie Francis released as the B-side of "Lipstick on Your Collar"
• "Frankie" (song), by Sister Sledge
• "Frankie and Johnny" (song), also known as "Frankie", or "Frankie and Albert", a traditional American popular song
• "Frankie", a song by Betty Blowtorch from Are You Man Enough?
• "Frankie" a song by Bruce Springsteen from Tracks

Films

• Frankie, a 1939 film released as Back Door to Heaven
• Frankie (2005 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