Meaning not yet researched.
Francesca: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 984 in 2025. Its best rank was #307 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Francesca in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#307 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Francesca: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 984 girls in 2025. Peak: #307 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 984 (2025).
In 2025, 984 US girls were named Francesca, making it the 307th most common girls’ name of the year, up 8 places from #315 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 976 girls named Francesca in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #307, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 984. For comparison, it was #429 in 2015 and #1,611 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Francesca in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 7 babies. In all, 35,364 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 7,019 babies named Francesca.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,837 US girls were named Francesca; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 984. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,633 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Francesca ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #70 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Francisca (12,643 babies since 1880) and Fran (5,339 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fransisca, Franca and Franceska are summarised on this page.
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 Catalan and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Fransisca (406), Franca (384), Franceska (376), Franziska (200), Paquita (188), Francessca (74), Franka (17), Franciska (16), Franciszka (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.
No nicknames listed for Francesca in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 11 | #70 | #146 |
| Connecticut | 28 | #99 | #168 |
| New Jersey | 72 | #100 | #116 |
| Massachusetts | 44 | #121 | #217 |
| New York | 119 | #138 | #195 |
| Illinois | 68 | #145 | #234 |
| Maine | 7 | #160 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 62 | #180 | #252 |
| Ohio | 54 | #211 | #329 |
| Florida | 72 | #265 | #309 |
| Maryland | 19 | #276 | #430 |
| Michigan | 28 | #319 | #508 |
| Colorado | 18 | #341 | #717 |
| California | 88 | #373 | #407 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #375 | #593 |
| Washington | 16 | #435 | #607 |
| Georgia | 26 | #437 | #1,217 |
| Missouri | 13 | #452 | #402 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #457 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #458 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #474 | #456 |
| Virginia | 16 | #495 | #693 |
| Indiana | 14 | #496 | #722 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #514 | #460 |
| Kansas | 6 | #524 | — |
| Louisiana | 8 | #556 | #817 |
| Oregon | 6 | #579 | #729 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #620 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #631 | — |
| Texas | 48 | #643 | #826 |
| Arizona | 10 | #647 | #732 |
| Alabama | 6 | #751 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 984 | #307 | — | — |
| 2024 | 976 | #315 | — | — |
| 2023 | 822 | #374 | — | — |
| 2022 | 812 | #387 | — | — |
| 2021 | 742 | #424 | — | — |
| 2020 | 679 | #455 | — | — |
| 2019 | 641 | #489 | — | — |
| 2018 | 674 | #467 | — | — |
| 2017 | 740 | #432 | — | — |
| 2016 | 767 | #425 | — | — |
| 2015 | 744 | #429 | — | — |
| 2014 | 753 | #425 | — | — |
| 2013 | 721 | #422 | — | — |
| 2012 | 635 | #483 | — | — |
| 2011 | 594 | #498 | — | — |
| 2010 | 606 | #494 | — | — |
| 2009 | 666 | #466 | — | — |
| 2008 | 646 | #488 | — | — |
| 2007 | 680 | #472 | — | — |
| 2006 | 747 | #423 | — | — |
| 2005 | 714 | #432 | — | — |
| 2004 | 711 | #426 | — | — |
| 2003 | 715 | #420 | — | — |
| 2002 | 716 | #408 | — | — |
| 2001 | 723 | #402 | — | — |
| 2000 | 701 | #405 | — | — |
| 1999 | 755 | #380 | — | — |
| 1998 | 755 | #375 | — | — |
| 1997 | 770 | #359 | — | — |
| 1996 | 786 | #353 | — | — |
| 1995 | 725 | #361 | — | — |
| 1994 | 709 | #365 | — | — |
| 1993 | 635 | #397 | — | — |
| 1992 | 683 | #377 | — | — |
| 1991 | 562 | #451 | — | — |
| 1990 | 529 | #462 | — | — |
| 1989 | 458 | #510 | 8 | #5,826 |
| 1988 | 600 | #402 | 6 | #6,690 |
| 1987 | 570 | #399 | — | — |
| 1986 | 604 | #384 | — | — |
| 1985 | 408 | #497 | 6 | #6,036 |
| 1984 | 353 | #541 | 7 | #5,153 |
| 1983 | 302 | #591 | — | — |
| 1982 | 279 | #641 | — | — |
| 1981 | 269 | #659 | — | — |
| 1980 | 252 | #688 | — | — |
| 1979 | 287 | #615 | 6 | #5,588 |
| 1978 | 273 | #619 | — | — |
| 1977 | 264 | #633 | — | — |
| 1976 | 231 | #663 | — | — |
| 1975 | 194 | #741 | — | — |
| 1974 | 230 | #662 | — | — |
| 1973 | 211 | #704 | — | — |
| 1972 | 200 | #717 | — | — |
| 1971 | 193 | #759 | — | — |
| 1970 | 167 | #824 | — | — |
| 1969 | 155 | #828 | — | — |
| 1968 | 166 | #777 | — | — |
| 1967 | 148 | #822 | — | — |
| 1966 | 142 | #839 | — | — |
| 1965 | 108 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1964 | 147 | #858 | — | — |
| 1963 | 128 | #936 | — | — |
| 1962 | 130 | #932 | — | — |
| 1961 | 118 | #998 | — | — |
| 1960 | 138 | #894 | — | — |
| 1959 | 155 | #823 | — | — |
| 1958 | 126 | #917 | — | — |
| 1957 | 99 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1956 | 143 | #827 | — | — |
| 1955 | 107 | #957 | — | — |
| 1954 | 96 | #995 | — | — |
| 1953 | 97 | #969 | — | — |
| 1952 | 84 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1949 | 65 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,805 | — | — |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,081 | — | — |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,230 | — | — |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,346 | — | — |
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).