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The term Frank in eastern Mediterranean countries was used, in various vernacular forms, to denote the Crusaders and their descendants, and the American surname may also be an Americanized form of such a form.English, Dutch, German, etc.: from the personal name Frank, in origin an ethnic name for a Frank.
But even if the resemblance between the two Latin names is only a coincidence, it is certainly a striking one. An Irish scholar, reading in the pages of Isidore that Irelandâs name had come from Spain, could easily have concluded that its people probably came from there as well. That Irish scholars did have access to Isidore, and to other Spanish writers as well, is the last point to be considered in this connection.