Frantzen: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

There is no single Frantzen family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

What Frantzen means

Spellings drift, and Frantzen is where Frantz drifted for some families. The name is usually explained as “From Franziskus (Francis)”.

The ending -en in Frantzen marks an German derivative of the root behind Frantz. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The 2010 census count for Frantzen in the United States was 692, good for rank 33,087. French birth records list 205 children named Frantzen between 1891 and 2000. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

For the full story, order the Frantzen surname pack.