Frankenberger

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Frankenberger.

Proper noun

Frankenberger (plural Frankenbergers)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Frankenberger is the 36154^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 620 individuals. Frankenberger is most common among White (95.0%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Frankenberger”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 598.

German

Etymology

From Frankenberg +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfʁaŋkn̩ˌbɛɐ̯ɡɐ]
• Hyphenation: Fran‧ken‧ber‧ger

Noun

Frankenberger m (strong, genitive Frankenbergers, plural Frankenberger, feminine Frankenbergerin)

1. A native or resident of Frankenberg

Declension

Declension of Frankenberger [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Frankenberger	die	Frankenberger
genitive	eines	des	Frankenbergers	der	Frankenberger
dative	einem	dem	Frankenberger	den	Frankenbergern
accusative	einen	den	Frankenberger	die	Frankenberger

Hypernyms

• Deutscher

Adjective

Frankenberger (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) of Frankenberg

Usage notes

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

Proper noun

Frankenberger m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Frankenbergers or (with an article) Frankenberger, feminine genitive Frankenberger, plural Frankenbergers or Frankenberger)

1. a surname

Declension

Declension of Frankenberger [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Frankenberger	(eine)	(die)	Frankenberger	(die)	Frankenbergers, Frankenberger
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Frankenbergers, Frankenberger1	(einer)	(der)	Frankenberger	(der)	Frankenbergers, Frankenberger
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Frankenberger	(einer)	(der)	Frankenberger	(den)	Frankenbergers, Frankenberger
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Frankenberger	(eine)	(die)	Frankenberger	(die)	Frankenbergers, Frankenberger

¹With an article.

Related terms

• Frankenfeld, Frankenstein
• Berg, Berger, Rosenberger, Schönberger