Franco
#746 for boys in 2025, 348 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 353 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,107since 1923
Franco over time
Rank among boys' names. Franco has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #746 | 348 |
| 2024 | #745 | 345 |
| 2023 | #779 | 325 |
| 2022 | #837 | 291 |
| 2021 | #866 | 268 |
| 2020 | #944 | 233 |
| 2019 | #853 | 262 |
| 2018 | #808 | 279 |
| 2017 | #727 | 328 |
| 2016 | #702 | 353 |
| 2015 | #873 | 254 |
| 2014 | #825 | 275 |
| 2013 | #889 | 234 |
| 2012 | #979 | 204 |
| 2011 | #961 | 206 |
| 2010 | #839 | 254 |
| 2009 | #748 | 307 |
| 2008 | #829 | 264 |
| 2007 | #1,053 | 178 |
| 2006 | #930 | 203 |
| 2005 | #879 | 207 |
| 2004 | #888 | 195 |
| 2003 | #1,149 | 131 |
| 2002 | #1,204 | 115 |
| 2001 | #1,171 | 117 |
| 2000 | #1,175 | 116 |
| 1999 | #1,421 | 82 |
| 1998 | #1,459 | 77 |
| 1997 | #1,423 | 76 |
| 1996 | #1,236 | 90 |
| 1995 | #1,327 | 78 |
| 1994 | #1,192 | 93 |
| 1993 | #1,168 | 91 |
| 1992 | #1,058 | 107 |
| 1991 | #1,245 | 80 |
| 1990 | #1,318 | 71 |
| 1989 | #1,109 | 91 |
| 1988 | #1,215 | 70 |
| 1987 | #1,054 | 82 |
| 1986 | #1,199 | 63 |
| 1985 | #1,228 | 60 |
| 1984 | #1,000 | 79 |
| 1983 | #1,178 | 59 |
| 1982 | #1,082 | 71 |
| 1981 | #995 | 83 |
| 1980 | #859 | 106 |
| 1979 | #945 | 87 |
| 1978 | #969 | 79 |
| 1977 | #949 | 81 |
| 1976 | #845 | 97 |
| 1975 | #879 | 89 |
| 1974 | #993 | 68 |
| 1973 | #978 | 68 |
| 1972 | #1,098 | 55 |
| 1971 | #1,400 | 37 |
| 1970 | #1,103 | 55 |
| 1969 | #1,097 | 50 |
| 1968 | #1,100 | 46 |
| 1967 | #992 | 53 |
| 1966 | #1,178 | 40 |
| 1965 | #1,335 | 33 |
| 1964 | #1,219 | 40 |
| 1963 | #1,792 | 20 |
| 1962 | #1,546 | 26 |
| 1961 | #1,686 | 23 |
| 1960 | #1,581 | 26 |
| 1959 | #1,522 | 27 |
| 1958 | #2,370 | 12 |
| 1957 | #1,887 | 18 |
| 1956 | #3,216 | 7 |
| 1955 | #3,201 | 7 |
| 1954 | #2,316 | 12 |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
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| 1950 | #2,580 | 9 |
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| 1948 | #3,010 | 7 |
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| 1937 | #3,175 | 6 |
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| 1930 | #3,289 | 7 |
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| 1928 | #3,697 | 6 |
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| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Franco! It came in at #3,175, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1927, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Franco is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#462 · 1 in 2,353
- Connecticut#507 · 1 in 2,790
- California#538 · 1 in 3,261
- New Jersey#545 · 1 in 3,131
- Texas#570 · 1 in 3,309
Best ever in a state: #332 in Massachusetts, 1964.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #462 | 22 | 1 in 2,353 |
| Connecticut | #507 | 5 | 1 in 2,790 |
| California | #538 | 58 | 1 in 3,261 |
| New Jersey | #545 | 13 | 1 in 3,131 |
| Texas | #570 | 54 | 1 in 3,309 |
| Arizona | #627 | 9 | 1 in 3,626 |
| North Carolina | #686 | 13 | 1 in 3,920 |
| New York | #716 | 19 | 1 in 4,588 |
| Georgia | #725 | 13 | 1 in 3,941 |
| Pennsylvania | #767 | 10 | 1 in 5,354 |
| Washington | #801 | 7 | 1 in 4,748 |
| Florida | #826 | 17 | 1 in 5,608 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Franco
- 1 spot since 2024 (#745 → #746)
- 198 spots since 2020 (#944 → #746)
- 127 spots since 2015 (#873 → #746)
- Biggest jump: 261 spots in 2004 (#1,149 → #888)
- Biggest drop: 228 spots in 1985 (#1,000 → #1,228)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2016 at #702 (353 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 2008–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,908 boys born in 2025 were named Franco (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #702 in 2016, was only 1 in 5,376 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.1% of all boys named Franco (2,649) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 14 | #3,175 (1923) | #3,436 |
| 1930s | 13 | #3,175 (1937) | #3,232 |
| 1940s | 7 | #3,010 (1948) | #3,010 |
| 1950s | 99 | #1,522 (1959) | #2,529 |
| 1960s | 357 | #992 (1967) | #1,353 |
| 1970s | 716 | #845 (1976) | #1,016 |
| 1980s | 764 | #859 (1980) | #1,092 |
| 1990s | 845 | #1,058 (1992) | #1,285 |
| 2000s | 1,833 | #748 (2009) | #1,003 |
| 2010s | 2,649 | #702 (2016) | #846 |
| 2020s | 1,810 | #745 (2024) | #820 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Franco in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
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1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 6,000 of them was named Franco, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).