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It's a silly nitpick anyway. The monster, Adam, calls the doctor, Victor Frankenstein, his father. Surnames are inherited, thus they are both Frankensteins.
Also, it's not uncommon to call a creation after it's creator ("that painting is a Van Gogh"), so calling him "a Frankenstein" works too.
Kind of a cop-out, since Dr. Frankenstein is referred to as such in the book and the creature never is.
Mary Shelley said herself that there are two monsters in the book and both are named Frankenstein.
Ah, Ernest and William, the younger brothers of Victor. Of course, it all makes sense now!
The monster's name is literally Adam Frankenstein
No it isn't. He compares himself to Adam once ("I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed") but he never calls himself that. And frankly, considering how much Frankenstein and the monster hated each other I don't think either of them would want to share a name.
relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2799/
Also relevant: https://xkcd.com/1589/
OMG spoilers!
The doctor is a monster for creating the monster.
We could just call him Adam?
Slavoj Žižek's Freudian-Hegelian interpretation of Mary Shelley's story is worth investigating especially in relation to Shelley's family, the French Revolution, and transgressive sexual politics.

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