Meaning not yet researched.
Fran: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,790 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,790 in 1958; #11,111 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fran in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,111 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #1,790.
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Fran: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,790 in 1958 · most boys in one year: 20 (1958).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Fran, making it the 11,111th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,790, reached in 1958. That year also had the most boys given the name: 20. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Fran in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #593, reached in 1960. That year also had the most girls given the name: 280. For comparison, it was #17,348 in 2015 and #901 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fran in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 5,339 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,753 babies named Fran.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19 US boys were named Fran; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 7. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Frank (920,589 babies since 1880), Francisco (143,146 babies since 1880), Francesca (35,364 babies since 1880) and Francisca (12,643 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Frann and Franne are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Frannie.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English, Italian, Slovene and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Frann (45), Franne (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Fran is listed as a nickname for Frances, Francine, Francis, Franklin.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,111 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,211 |
| 2016 | — | — | 7 | #9,996 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,348 | — | — |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #12,877 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #11,939 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,090 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #11,256 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,144 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,512 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,484 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,291 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #7,969 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,999 | — | — |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,561 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,986 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,275 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,930 | 9 | #4,595 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,633 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,799 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,313 | 5 | #6,596 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,307 | 5 | #6,683 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,803 | 9 | #4,271 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,385 | 10 | #3,937 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,867 | — | — |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,542 | — | — |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,855 | 5 | #6,182 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,035 | 9 | #3,819 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,437 | — | — |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,121 | 8 | #3,760 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,093 | 7 | #3,985 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,846 | 5 | #4,614 |
| 1968 | 53 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,305 | 7 | #3,360 |
| 1966 | 87 | #1,136 | 5 | #4,140 |
| 1965 | 100 | #1,050 | 9 | #2,861 |
| 1964 | 116 | #992 | 12 | #2,463 |
| 1963 | 132 | #917 | 13 | #2,351 |
| 1962 | 164 | #818 | 16 | #2,065 |
| 1961 | 247 | #651 | 13 | #2,359 |
| 1960 | 280 | #593 | 17 | #2,000 |
| 1959 | 270 | #605 | 15 | #2,145 |
| 1958 | 210 | #682 | 20 | #1,790 |
| 1957 | 190 | #726 | 11 | #2,536 |
| 1956 | 161 | #774 | — | — |
| 1955 | 177 | #710 | 5 | #4,052 |
| 1954 | 150 | #761 | — | — |
| 1953 | 152 | #741 | — | — |
| 1952 | 138 | #757 | — | — |
| 1951 | 149 | #715 | 8 | #2,915 |
| 1950 | 97 | #901 | — | — |
| 1949 | 116 | #808 | — | — |
| 1948 | 146 | #687 | 9 | #2,671 |
| 1947 | 161 | #660 | 8 | #2,959 |
| 1946 | 165 | #617 | 10 | #2,458 |
| 1945 | 100 | #751 | 6 | #3,119 |
| 1944 | 113 | #706 | — | — |
| 1943 | 133 | #658 | — | — |
| 1942 | 107 | #721 | 9 | #2,583 |
| 1941 | 70 | #872 | 7 | #2,973 |
| 1940 | 60 | #930 | — | — |
| 1939 | 61 | #900 | 7 | #2,938 |
| 1938 | 43 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1937 | 47 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,230 | 9 | #2,596 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,079 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,225 | — | — |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,287 | — | — |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,738 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,991 | — | — |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,235 | 5 | #4,404 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,471 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,683 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,952 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,753 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).