Meaning not yet researched.
Francisca: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #482 in 1902.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #482 in 1902; #2,969 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Francisca in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,969 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1902, at #482.
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Francisca: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #482 in 1902 · most girls in one year: 198 (1928).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Francisca, making it the 2,969th most common girls’ name of the year, down 239 places from #2,730 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 63 girls named Francisca in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #482, reached in 1902. The most girls given the name in a single year was 198, in 1928. For comparison, it was #3,618 in 2015 and #895 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Francisca in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 12,643 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,667 babies named Francisca.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 524 US girls were named Francisca; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Francisca ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,159 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Francesca (35,364 babies since 1880) and Fran (5,339 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Panchita 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 Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Panchita (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 Francisca 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,159 | #3,155 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,481 | #3,451 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,090 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,416 | — | — |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,528 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,719 | — | — |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,618 | — | — |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,201 | — | — |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,191 | — | — |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,486 | — | — |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,171 | — | — |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,223 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,906 | — | — |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 2004 | 87 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1996 | 138 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1995 | 117 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1994 | 128 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1993 | 133 | #1,279 | 7 | #7,060 |
| 1992 | 148 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1991 | 138 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1990 | 133 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1989 | 146 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1988 | 134 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1987 | 116 | #1,228 | 7 | #5,688 |
| 1986 | 106 | #1,276 | 5 | #7,081 |
| 1985 | 153 | #999 | — | — |
| 1984 | 117 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1983 | 123 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1982 | 158 | #943 | — | — |
| 1981 | 165 | #908 | 6 | #5,743 |
| 1980 | 167 | #903 | 6 | #5,765 |
| 1979 | 142 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1978 | 139 | #993 | — | — |
| 1977 | 125 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1976 | 137 | #936 | — | — |
| 1975 | 129 | #966 | — | — |
| 1974 | 148 | #878 | — | — |
| 1973 | 127 | #948 | — | — |
| 1972 | 109 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1971 | 131 | #970 | 6 | #4,590 |
| 1970 | 106 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1969 | 118 | #996 | — | — |
| 1968 | 89 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1967 | 92 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1966 | 102 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1965 | 88 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1964 | 94 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1963 | 99 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1962 | 85 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1961 | 89 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1960 | 129 | #942 | — | — |
| 1959 | 96 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1958 | 91 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1957 | 114 | #972 | — | — |
| 1956 | 90 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1955 | 77 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1954 | 99 | #980 | — | — |
| 1953 | 109 | #899 | — | — |
| 1952 | 101 | #922 | — | — |
| 1951 | 100 | #915 | — | — |
| 1950 | 98 | #895 | — | — |
| 1949 | 103 | #862 | — | — |
| 1948 | 130 | #744 | — | — |
| 1947 | 103 | #863 | — | — |
| 1946 | 102 | #820 | — | — |
| 1945 | 112 | #702 | — | — |
| 1944 | 81 | #847 | — | — |
| 1943 | 89 | #825 | — | — |
| 1942 | 77 | #891 | — | — |
| 1941 | 69 | #878 | — | — |
| 1940 | 83 | #774 | — | — |
| 1939 | 79 | #769 | — | — |
| 1938 | 96 | #701 | — | — |
| 1937 | 98 | #690 | — | — |
| 1936 | 80 | #750 | — | — |
| 1935 | 98 | #673 | — | — |
| 1934 | 120 | #597 | — | — |
| 1933 | 109 | #625 | — | — |
| 1932 | 111 | #635 | 5 | #3,963 |
| 1931 | 133 | #572 | — | — |
| 1930 | 169 | #519 | — | — |
| 1929 | 191 | #487 | — | — |
| 1928 | 198 | #487 | — | — |
| 1927 | 179 | #527 | 7 | #3,578 |
| 1926 | 167 | #540 | — | — |
| 1925 | 168 | #557 | — | — |
| 1924 | 154 | #599 | — | — |
| 1923 | 133 | #636 | — | — |
| 1922 | 157 | #575 | — | — |
| 1921 | 157 | #575 | — | — |
| 1920 | 150 | #584 | 6 | #3,992 |
| 1919 | 109 | #669 | — | — |
| 1918 | 109 | #689 | — | — |
| 1917 | 104 | #667 | 6 | #3,706 |
| 1916 | 97 | #697 | — | — |
| 1915 | 67 | #803 | — | — |
| 1914 | 85 | #627 | — | — |
| 1913 | 55 | #704 | — | — |
| 1912 | 82 | #540 | — | — |
| 1911 | 49 | #613 | — | — |
| 1910 | 46 | #623 | — | — |
| 1909 | 40 | #618 | — | — |
| 1908 | 38 | #620 | — | — |
| 1907 | 45 | #538 | — | — |
| 1906 | 33 | #626 | — | — |
| 1905 | 41 | #537 | — | — |
| 1904 | 39 | #531 | — | — |
| 1903 | 29 | #613 | — | — |
| 1902 | 43 | #482 | — | — |
| 1901 | 30 | #564 | — | — |
| 1900 | 38 | #560 | — | — |
| 1899 | 20 | #713 | — | — |
| 1898 | 26 | #640 | — | — |
| 1897 | 27 | #586 | — | — |
| 1896 | 13 | #918 | — | — |
| 1895 | 13 | #906 | — | — |
| 1894 | 16 | #761 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #981 | — | — |
| 1892 | 22 | #602 | — | — |
| 1891 | 24 | #529 | — | — |
| 1890 | 20 | #587 | — | — |
| 1889 | 11 | #819 | — | — |
| 1888 | 19 | #582 | — | — |
| 1887 | 10 | #751 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #931 | — | — |
| 1885 | 8 | #812 | — | — |
| 1884 | 7 | #879 | — | — |
| 1883 | 8 | #720 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #956 | — | — |
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).