Fran — unisex name

What the Data Says About Fran

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,965 babies named Fran between 1912 and 2015, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fran currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 280 babies received it in a single year. Fran is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 368 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fran performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 1,694 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Fran shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,186 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Fran in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fran in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,965 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.