What is "frankel"

Fränkel (or Fraenkel, Frenkel)

This interesting surname is of German and Ashkenazic origins, used as an ethnic or regional name for someone from Franconia ("Franken" in Germany), which is a region of south-west Germany, so called because it formed an early Frankish settlement. Thus Frankel is a German and Ashkenazic diminutive of this placename. It may also be a form of "Frank", from the Norman given name "Franc", an ethnic name for a Frank (Germanic people who inhabited the Rhine region), plus the diminutive suffix "el", little. Frank also comes from a medieval English and old French word "franc", meaning liberal, generous (it meant free in earlier times, because only those of Frenkish race were free). German variant spellings include "Frankl, Frenkel, Frankel and Frankle", while Ashkenazic variants are "Frank(e)l" and "Frenk(i)el". Elias Benjamin Frankel married Elizabeth Myers at Christchurch, Southwark, London on April 25th 1850. One Marcus Frankel married Deliza Jones at St. John the Baptist, Shoreditch, London on December 4th 1871. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Francois Franchel, (marriage to Anne Scott in London), which was dated December 4th 1799, London Church Registers, during the reign of King George III, "Farmer George", 1760 - 1820.

Fränkel (or Fraenkel) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Abraham Fraenkel (1891–1965), German-Israeli mathematician, known for Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
• Albert Fränkel (1848–1916), German physician
• Aviezri Fraenkel (born 1929), Israeli mathematician
• Baruch ben David Te'omim-Fränkel (1760–1828), Rabbi, Talmudist
• David ben Naphtali Fränkel (c 1704 – 1762), German rabbi
• Eduard Fraenkel (1888–1965), German-English classical scholar
• Ernst Fränkel (physician) (1844–1921), German gynaecologist
• Ernst Fraenkel (linguist) (1881–1957), German linguist
• Ernst Fraenkel (political scientist) (1898–1975), German political scientist
• Hermann Fränkel (1888-1977), German-American classicist
• Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999), biochemist
• Jonas Fränkel (1773–1846), German banker and philanthropist
• Josef Fraenkel (1903–1987), Austro-Hungarian (later British) journalist and author
• Knut Frænkel (1870–1897), Swedish engineer and arctic explorer
• Leó Frankel (Léo Fränkel) (1844–1896), Hungarian communist revolutionary
• Sándor Ferenczi (1873–1933), Hungarian psychoanalyst, born Alexander Fränkel

Frankel is the surname of:

• Frankel (horse) (born 2008), British thoroughbred racehorse
• Benjamin Frankel (1906–1973), British composer
• Bethenny Frankel, American chef and reality television personality
• Charles Frankel (1917–1975), American philosopher, known for Charles Frankel Prize
• Dave Frankel, Attorney, former television weatherman and news anchor
• David Frankel (born 1959), American director, editor, screenwriter, executive producer
• Felice Frankel, a photographer of scientific art images, or artistic science images.
• Gene Frankel (1919–2005), theater director
• Jeffrey Frankel, American economist
• Jonah Frankel (1928–2012), author, Hebrew literature professor and Israel Prize laureate
• Jonah Frankel (businessman) (died 1846), German Jewish businessman, banker and philanthropist
• Jonah Teomim-Frankel (1595–1669), author of the book Kikayon deYona
• Justin Frankel, computer programmer
• Leó Frankel (1844–1896), Hungarian politician
• Martin Frankel, financier
• Max Frankel, journalist and former New York Times executive editor
• Richard B. Frankel, American physicist
• Robert "Bobby" J. Frankel (1941–2009), American thoroughbred race horse trainer
• Sandra Frankel
• Stan Frankel (1919–1978), American physicist
• Theodore Frankel, mathematician
• William Frankel (1903–2008), editor of the British weekly newspaper, The Jewish Chronicle, from 1958 to 1977
• Zecharias Frankel (1801–1875), Bohemian-German conservative rabbi, historian

Frankel (foaled 11 February 2008) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. Frankel was unbeaten in his fourteen-race career and was the highest-rated racehorse in the world from May 2011. In 2010 he defeated a field including Nathaniel and Colour Vision on his debut before winning the Royal Lodge Stakes by ten lengths and the Dewhurst Stakes in which he defeated the Middle Park Stakes winner Dream Ahead. As a three-year-old, he won the Classic 2000 Guineas by six lengths, defeated the outstanding older miler Canford Cliffs in the much-anticipated Sussex Stakes at Goodwood and won the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot. Frankel extended his unbeaten record in 2012 by winning the Lockinge Stakes, the Queen Anne Stakes and the Sussex Stakes for a second time. In August he was moved up to a mile and a quarter for the first time and won the International Stakes at York. In October he won the Champion Stakes at Ascot, again over a mile and a quarter, following which his retirement from racing was announced.

After his win in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot in October 2011, Frankel was given a rating of 143 by Timeform, the highest mark awarded by the organisation in over forty years and their fourth highest of all time behind Sea Bird, Brigadier Gerard and Tudor Minstrel. In June 2012, following his win in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot, Timeform raised its provisional rating to 147, making him the highest-rated horse in the organisation's history. In January 2013 Timeform announced that his final rating at the end of his racing career was also 147.

The World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings Committee rank Frankel as the best racehorse they have assessed since their ratings were introduced in 1977, by a margin of two points. In January 2013 they announced that their ratings had been recalibrated, since it was believed that in the early years of the scheme horses had been treated more generously than more recently. Frankel's rating was confirmed at 140, but Dancing Brave was reduced from 141 to 138, Alleged from 140 to 134 and Shergar from 140 to 136.

Since 1900, of British-bred racehorses only Ribot has won more races and finished his career unbeaten (racing largely in Italy). Frankel's record of nine consecutive Group 1 wins is unsurpassed and has been equalled only by the U.S.A. filly Zenyatta.

Frankel's performance in the 2000 Guineas has been described as "one of the greatest displays on a British racecourse". British bloodstock agency McKeever Bloodstock and Banstead Manor Stud Manager Philip Mitchell have suggested that Frankel has a valuation of £100 million, an estimate which may be "conservative".