Meaning not yet researched.
Francine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 108 in 2025. Its best rank was #216 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #216 in 1946; #1,850 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Francine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,850 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #216.
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Francine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 108 girls in 2025. Peak: #216 in 1946 · most girls in one year: 1,143 (1951).
In 2025, 108 US girls were named Francine, making it the 1,850th most common girls’ name of the year, up 207 places from #2,057 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 94 girls named Francine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #216, reached in 1946. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,143, in 1951. For comparison, it was #3,069 in 2015 and #224 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Francine in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 8 babies. In all, 36,481 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 10,203 babies named Francine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 790 US girls were named Francine; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,882 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Francine ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #561 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Francene (1,724 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Francina, Francy and Francyne are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Fran, Francie, Frannie, Franniey and Franny.
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 French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Francina (1,626), Francy (164), Francyne (122), Franciene (15).
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.
Francine is listed as a nickname for Francie.
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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 9 | #561 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #802 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #836 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,097 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,115 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,332 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,468 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #2,096 | — |
| California | 9 | #2,158 | #1,854 |
| New York | 5 | #2,205 | #2,060 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,069 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,869 | — | — |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,807 | — | — |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,485 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,466 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,428 | — | — |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,044 | — | — |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,233 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,727 | — | — |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,910 | — | — |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,683 | — | — |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,511 | — | — |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1997 | 93 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1993 | 126 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1992 | 126 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1991 | 143 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1990 | 142 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1989 | 150 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1988 | 163 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1987 | 161 | #980 | — | — |
| 1986 | 175 | #920 | — | — |
| 1985 | 218 | #777 | — | — |
| 1984 | 203 | #789 | — | — |
| 1983 | 188 | #816 | — | — |
| 1982 | 225 | #744 | — | — |
| 1981 | 260 | #671 | — | — |
| 1980 | 200 | #809 | — | — |
| 1979 | 231 | #721 | — | — |
| 1978 | 224 | #705 | — | — |
| 1977 | 217 | #714 | — | — |
| 1976 | 240 | #647 | — | — |
| 1975 | 289 | #573 | — | — |
| 1974 | 323 | #521 | — | — |
| 1973 | 319 | #527 | — | — |
| 1972 | 422 | #446 | — | — |
| 1971 | 513 | #415 | — | — |
| 1970 | 604 | #388 | — | — |
| 1969 | 565 | #401 | — | — |
| 1968 | 615 | #361 | — | — |
| 1967 | 614 | #361 | — | — |
| 1966 | 712 | #333 | — | — |
| 1965 | 688 | #350 | — | — |
| 1964 | 846 | #322 | 5 | #4,252 |
| 1963 | 809 | #332 | — | — |
| 1962 | 785 | #336 | — | — |
| 1961 | 942 | #301 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,020 | #286 | 6 | #3,794 |
| 1959 | 985 | #288 | — | — |
| 1958 | 842 | #318 | — | — |
| 1957 | 896 | #308 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,027 | #268 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,042 | #258 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,004 | #261 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,088 | #246 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,052 | #244 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,143 | #227 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,124 | #224 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,058 | #228 | — | — |
| 1948 | 975 | #238 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,040 | #232 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,083 | #216 | — | — |
| 1945 | 746 | #245 | — | — |
| 1944 | 530 | #293 | — | — |
| 1943 | 529 | #302 | — | — |
| 1942 | 575 | #284 | — | — |
| 1941 | 390 | #334 | — | — |
| 1940 | 299 | #387 | — | — |
| 1939 | 279 | #403 | — | — |
| 1938 | 287 | #396 | — | — |
| 1937 | 244 | #415 | — | — |
| 1936 | 218 | #437 | — | — |
| 1935 | 238 | #420 | — | — |
| 1934 | 169 | #494 | — | — |
| 1933 | 209 | #448 | — | — |
| 1932 | 183 | #491 | — | — |
| 1931 | 157 | #526 | — | — |
| 1930 | 141 | #575 | — | — |
| 1929 | 115 | #652 | — | — |
| 1928 | 94 | #732 | — | — |
| 1927 | 125 | #646 | — | — |
| 1926 | 103 | #719 | — | — |
| 1925 | 104 | #722 | — | — |
| 1924 | 98 | #750 | — | — |
| 1923 | 62 | #933 | — | — |
| 1922 | 77 | #836 | — | — |
| 1921 | 84 | #800 | — | — |
| 1920 | 71 | #860 | — | — |
| 1919 | 49 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1918 | 62 | #911 | — | — |
| 1917 | 47 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1916 | 50 | #969 | — | — |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1913 | 23 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,488 | — | — |
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).