FRANCIS
and its shortened form FRANK and the numerous feminine variations which include FRANCES, FRANCINE, FRANCESCA (the Italian form), the French FRANCQISE, and the shortened forms FANNY and FRANNY all mean free,. These names come from the name of an ancient Germanic tribe that settled in the land that came to be named after them-France. In Hawaiian KU'OKA'A means free and independent. The Hawaiianized-English forms which are the same as native Hawaiian words are as follows; FRANCES, FRANCIS is PALAKIKIA, PALA=ripe and KIKA=sticky; FRANK is PALANI which is the surgeon fish, but which also means stinky! FANNY becomes PANE which means an answer or reply.