Meaning not yet researched.
Franky: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,258 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,258 in 1960; #3,207 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Franky in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,207 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #1,258.
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Franky: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,258 in 1960 · most boys in one year: 94 (2007).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Franky, making it the 3,207th most common boys’ name of the year, up 143 places from #3,350 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 35 boys named Franky in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,258, reached in 1960. The most boys given the name in a single year was 94, in 2007. For comparison, it was #3,543 in 2015 and #1,508 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Franky in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 3,144 US babies have been given the name, 2.2% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 609 babies named Franky.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 371 US boys were named Franky; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Frankie (79,430 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Francky 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Francky (7).
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 Franky in the open dataset we use.
Franky is listed as a nickname for Frank, Veronica.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 37 | #3,207 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,047 | 35 | #3,350 |
| 2023 | — | — | 35 | #3,369 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,360 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,156 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,716 | 33 | #3,444 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,399 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,720 | 45 | #2,728 |
| 2016 | — | — | 57 | #2,312 |
| 2015 | — | — | 31 | #3,543 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,414 | 48 | #2,555 |
| 2013 | — | — | 47 | #2,573 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,756 | 43 | #2,789 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,558 |
| 2010 | — | — | 58 | #2,243 |
| 2009 | — | — | 54 | #2,387 |
| 2008 | — | — | 72 | #1,973 |
| 2007 | — | — | 94 | #1,640 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,065 | 68 | #1,978 |
| 2005 | — | — | 54 | #2,215 |
| 2004 | — | — | 67 | #1,843 |
| 2003 | — | — | 44 | #2,404 |
| 2002 | — | — | 52 | #2,074 |
| 2001 | — | — | 41 | #2,397 |
| 2000 | — | — | 58 | #1,838 |
| 1999 | — | — | 57 | #1,766 |
| 1998 | — | — | 43 | #2,135 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,276 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,881 |
| 1995 | — | — | 57 | #1,609 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,293 | 40 | #2,056 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,229 | 44 | #1,877 |
| 1992 | — | — | 39 | #2,014 |
| 1991 | — | — | 44 | #1,808 |
| 1990 | — | — | 46 | #1,739 |
| 1989 | — | — | 33 | #2,119 |
| 1988 | — | — | 36 | #1,860 |
| 1987 | — | — | 35 | #1,841 |
| 1986 | — | — | 32 | #1,888 |
| 1985 | — | — | 32 | #1,843 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,191 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #1,974 |
| 1982 | — | — | 25 | #2,133 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,468 | 20 | #2,440 |
| 1980 | — | — | 28 | #1,979 |
| 1979 | — | — | 26 | #2,010 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,405 |
| 1977 | — | — | 21 | #2,229 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,896 |
| 1975 | — | — | 40 | #1,386 |
| 1974 | — | — | 21 | #2,073 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,748 |
| 1972 | — | — | 30 | #1,576 |
| 1971 | — | — | 30 | #1,613 |
| 1970 | — | — | 30 | #1,559 |
| 1969 | — | — | 29 | #1,507 |
| 1968 | — | — | 30 | #1,440 |
| 1967 | — | — | 27 | #1,486 |
| 1966 | — | — | 23 | #1,628 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,029 | 34 | #1,323 |
| 1964 | — | — | 25 | #1,593 |
| 1963 | — | — | 30 | #1,438 |
| 1962 | — | — | 34 | #1,351 |
| 1961 | — | — | 25 | #1,614 |
| 1960 | — | — | 39 | #1,258 |
| 1959 | — | — | 37 | #1,282 |
| 1958 | — | — | 25 | #1,566 |
| 1957 | — | — | 29 | #1,464 |
| 1956 | — | — | 37 | #1,263 |
| 1955 | — | — | 20 | #1,751 |
| 1954 | — | — | 22 | #1,644 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,729 | 9 | #2,779 |
| 1952 | — | — | 25 | #1,529 |
| 1951 | — | — | 32 | #1,314 |
| 1950 | — | — | 24 | #1,508 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,781 |
| 1948 | — | — | 22 | #1,576 |
| 1947 | — | — | 31 | #1,326 |
| 1946 | — | — | 15 | #1,908 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,454 |
| 1944 | — | — | 13 | #2,023 |
| 1943 | — | — | 13 | #2,105 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,585 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,728 |
| 1940 | — | — | 13 | #2,019 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,243 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,117 |
| 1937 | — | — | 14 | #1,939 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,506 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,598 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,097 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,135 |
| 1932 | — | — | 12 | #2,234 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,542 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,366 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,081 | — | — |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,463 |
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).