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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Fran

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

4,965

peak year 1960

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1960
280 births
Best rank
#593
in 1960
First recorded
1912
#2,753 that year
Last recorded
2015
no later published record
Average birth year
1954
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
77 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1960280#593Peak
  2. 1959270#605
  3. 1961247#651
  4. 1958210#682
  5. 1957190#726

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #593 in 1960 · peak births 280 in 1960

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 7% boys■ 93% girls

374 boys · 4,965 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Fran has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.