Meaning not yet researched.
Francesco: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 145 in 2025. Its best rank was #760 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #760 in 1975; #1,329 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Francesco in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,329 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #760.
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Francesco: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 145 boys in 2025. Peak: #760 in 1975 · most boys in one year: 166 (2006).
In 2025, 145 US boys were named Francesco, making it the 1,329th most common boys’ name of the year, down 87 places from #1,242 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 160 boys named Francesco in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #760, reached in 1975. The most boys given the name in a single year was 166, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,343 in 2015 and #1,767 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Francesco in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 6 babies. In all, 8,446 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,478 babies named Francesco.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,330 US boys were named Francesco; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,780 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Francesco ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #339 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Frank (920,589 babies since 1880), Francis (320,322 babies since 1880), Francisco (143,146 babies since 1880) and Franklin (142,506 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Francesco in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 9 | #339 | — |
| New York | 34 | #483 | #453 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #499 | #635 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #575 | #652 |
| Illinois | 12 | #724 | #653 |
| Florida | 16 | #894 | #1,776 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,036 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,338 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,731 | #1,273 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,155 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 145 | #1,329 |
| 2024 | — | — | 160 | #1,242 |
| 2023 | — | — | 147 | #1,302 |
| 2022 | — | — | 128 | #1,427 |
| 2021 | — | — | 130 | #1,411 |
| 2020 | — | — | 134 | #1,338 |
| 2019 | — | — | 107 | #1,568 |
| 2018 | — | — | 122 | #1,437 |
| 2017 | — | — | 120 | #1,436 |
| 2016 | — | — | 137 | #1,318 |
| 2015 | — | — | 131 | #1,343 |
| 2014 | — | — | 144 | #1,251 |
| 2013 | — | — | 121 | #1,390 |
| 2012 | — | — | 119 | #1,401 |
| 2011 | — | — | 138 | #1,254 |
| 2010 | — | — | 117 | #1,418 |
| 2009 | — | — | 151 | #1,197 |
| 2008 | — | — | 127 | #1,350 |
| 2007 | — | — | 153 | #1,158 |
| 2006 | — | — | 166 | #1,073 |
| 2005 | — | — | 161 | #1,041 |
| 2004 | — | — | 143 | #1,106 |
| 2003 | — | — | 142 | #1,091 |
| 2002 | — | — | 148 | #1,034 |
| 2001 | — | — | 139 | #1,051 |
| 2000 | — | — | 148 | #999 |
| 1999 | — | — | 145 | #983 |
| 1998 | — | — | 139 | #990 |
| 1997 | — | — | 118 | #1,078 |
| 1996 | — | — | 131 | #971 |
| 1995 | — | — | 139 | #944 |
| 1994 | — | — | 124 | #998 |
| 1993 | — | — | 136 | #922 |
| 1992 | — | — | 114 | #1,026 |
| 1991 | — | — | 140 | #891 |
| 1990 | — | — | 151 | #837 |
| 1989 | — | — | 111 | #970 |
| 1988 | — | — | 106 | #931 |
| 1987 | — | — | 113 | #881 |
| 1986 | — | — | 108 | #875 |
| 1985 | — | — | 108 | #875 |
| 1984 | — | — | 96 | #892 |
| 1983 | — | — | 91 | #924 |
| 1982 | — | — | 92 | #936 |
| 1981 | — | — | 108 | #846 |
| 1980 | — | — | 131 | #766 |
| 1979 | — | — | 105 | #843 |
| 1978 | — | — | 106 | #833 |
| 1977 | — | — | 102 | #849 |
| 1976 | — | — | 112 | #783 |
| 1975 | — | — | 119 | #760 |
| 1974 | — | — | 105 | #784 |
| 1973 | — | — | 103 | #783 |
| 1972 | — | — | 78 | #908 |
| 1971 | — | — | 80 | #911 |
| 1970 | — | — | 88 | #857 |
| 1969 | — | — | 76 | #877 |
| 1968 | — | — | 70 | #867 |
| 1967 | — | — | 62 | #920 |
| 1966 | — | — | 48 | #1,062 |
| 1965 | — | — | 53 | #1,012 |
| 1964 | — | — | 52 | #1,050 |
| 1963 | — | — | 43 | #1,184 |
| 1962 | — | — | 38 | #1,262 |
| 1961 | — | — | 33 | #1,393 |
| 1960 | — | — | 28 | #1,535 |
| 1959 | — | — | 20 | #1,824 |
| 1958 | — | — | 36 | #1,288 |
| 1957 | — | — | 39 | #1,257 |
| 1956 | — | — | 33 | #1,351 |
| 1955 | — | — | 31 | #1,383 |
| 1954 | — | — | 31 | #1,368 |
| 1953 | — | — | 35 | #1,266 |
| 1952 | — | — | 26 | #1,497 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,172 |
| 1950 | — | — | 18 | #1,767 |
| 1949 | — | — | 19 | #1,724 |
| 1948 | — | — | 15 | #1,971 |
| 1947 | — | — | 15 | #2,020 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,297 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,714 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,338 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,513 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #2,978 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,752 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,347 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,597 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,314 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,416 |
| 1932 | — | — | 10 | #2,519 |
| 1931 | — | — | 16 | #1,876 |
| 1930 | — | — | 20 | #1,667 |
| 1929 | — | — | 17 | #1,888 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,087 |
| 1927 | — | — | 12 | #2,453 |
| 1926 | — | — | 23 | #1,582 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,123 |
| 1924 | — | — | 19 | #1,862 |
| 1923 | — | — | 22 | #1,660 |
| 1922 | — | — | 26 | #1,480 |
| 1921 | — | — | 30 | #1,373 |
| 1920 | — | — | 23 | #1,612 |
| 1919 | — | — | 34 | #1,217 |
| 1918 | — | — | 30 | #1,299 |
| 1917 | — | — | 39 | #1,068 |
| 1916 | — | — | 28 | #1,282 |
| 1915 | — | — | 36 | #1,074 |
| 1914 | — | — | 36 | #915 |
| 1913 | — | — | 36 | #792 |
| 1912 | — | — | 28 | #841 |
| 1911 | — | — | 9 | #1,223 |
| 1910 | — | — | 10 | #1,070 |
| 1908 | — | — | 13 | #760 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,405 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,171 |
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).