Meaning not yet researched.
Franco: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 348 in 2025. Its best rank was #702 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #702 in 2016; #747 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Franco in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#747 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #702.
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Franco: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 348 boys in 2025. Peak: #702 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 353 (2016).
In 2025, 348 US boys were named Franco, making it the 747th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2 places from #745 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 345 boys named Franco in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #702, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 353. For comparison, it was #876 in 2015 and #2,643 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Franco in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 8 babies. In all, 9,107 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,649 babies named Franco.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,032 US boys were named Franco; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 353. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,908 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Franco ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #426 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).
No nicknames listed for Franco 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 46 | #426 | #511 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #434 | #895 |
| Illinois | 18 | #535 | #1,226 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #557 | #719 |
| California | 54 | #560 | #492 |
| Texas | 57 | #564 | #579 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #646 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #646 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #743 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #759 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #847 | — |
| New York | 16 | #857 | #1,183 |
| Colorado | 5 | #891 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #963 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #987 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,066 | #1,036 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,262 | #1,272 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,340 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 348 | #747 |
| 2024 | — | — | 345 | #745 |
| 2023 | — | — | 325 | #780 |
| 2022 | — | — | 291 | #839 |
| 2021 | — | — | 268 | #866 |
| 2020 | — | — | 233 | #945 |
| 2019 | — | — | 262 | #853 |
| 2018 | — | — | 279 | #808 |
| 2017 | — | — | 328 | #727 |
| 2016 | — | — | 353 | #702 |
| 2015 | — | — | 254 | #876 |
| 2014 | — | — | 275 | #825 |
| 2013 | — | — | 234 | #890 |
| 2012 | — | — | 204 | #980 |
| 2011 | — | — | 206 | #961 |
| 2010 | — | — | 254 | #839 |
| 2009 | — | — | 307 | #748 |
| 2008 | — | — | 264 | #830 |
| 2007 | — | — | 178 | #1,054 |
| 2006 | — | — | 203 | #930 |
| 2005 | — | — | 207 | #881 |
| 2004 | — | — | 195 | #889 |
| 2003 | — | — | 131 | #1,151 |
| 2002 | — | — | 115 | #1,206 |
| 2001 | — | — | 117 | #1,175 |
| 2000 | — | — | 116 | #1,178 |
| 1999 | — | — | 82 | #1,423 |
| 1998 | — | — | 77 | #1,459 |
| 1997 | — | — | 76 | #1,428 |
| 1996 | — | — | 90 | #1,239 |
| 1995 | — | — | 78 | #1,330 |
| 1994 | — | — | 93 | #1,197 |
| 1993 | — | — | 91 | #1,173 |
| 1992 | — | — | 107 | #1,061 |
| 1991 | — | — | 80 | #1,250 |
| 1990 | — | — | 71 | #1,320 |
| 1989 | — | — | 91 | #1,110 |
| 1988 | — | — | 70 | #1,217 |
| 1987 | — | — | 82 | #1,056 |
| 1986 | — | — | 63 | #1,207 |
| 1985 | — | — | 60 | #1,234 |
| 1984 | — | — | 79 | #1,003 |
| 1983 | — | — | 59 | #1,184 |
| 1982 | — | — | 71 | #1,084 |
| 1981 | — | — | 83 | #997 |
| 1980 | — | — | 106 | #863 |
| 1979 | — | — | 87 | #948 |
| 1978 | — | — | 79 | #972 |
| 1977 | — | — | 81 | #950 |
| 1976 | — | — | 97 | #847 |
| 1975 | — | — | 89 | #880 |
| 1974 | — | — | 68 | #996 |
| 1973 | — | — | 68 | #980 |
| 1972 | — | — | 55 | #1,104 |
| 1971 | — | — | 37 | #1,406 |
| 1970 | — | — | 55 | #1,105 |
| 1969 | — | — | 50 | #1,103 |
| 1968 | — | — | 46 | #1,106 |
| 1967 | — | — | 53 | #999 |
| 1966 | — | — | 40 | #1,183 |
| 1965 | — | — | 33 | #1,341 |
| 1964 | — | — | 40 | #1,224 |
| 1963 | — | — | 20 | #1,810 |
| 1962 | — | — | 26 | #1,561 |
| 1961 | — | — | 23 | #1,707 |
| 1960 | — | — | 26 | #1,598 |
| 1959 | — | — | 27 | #1,531 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,410 |
| 1957 | — | — | 18 | #1,910 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,315 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,299 |
| 1954 | — | — | 12 | #2,354 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,228 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,643 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,106 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,283 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,401 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,869 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,266 |
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).