The International System Units or the SI units is scientific method of expressing the magnitudes or quantities of important natural phenomena. There are seven base units in the system, from which other units are derived. This system was formerly called the meter-kilogram-second (MKS) system.
There's nothing mysterious about it at all. "Frequency" simply means
"often-ness" ... how often or how frequently something happens.
-- The frequency of traditional meals is 3 per day.
-- The frequency of an equinox is 2 per year.
-- The frequency of my sleeping really late is 1 per week.
-- The frequency of my intense desire to sleep late is 30 per month.
etc.
-- The standard unit of frequency in the SI system is "per second".
The special name for that unit is "Hertz". (Hz)