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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
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