France
France was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,538 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of France by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does France mean?
Wiktionary, English section
France is “Alternative form of Frances; A female given name; feminine of Francis.”
From Middle English France, from Old French France, from Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe, of unclear (but Proto-Germanic) origin. Believed to be most likely from Frankish *Frankō (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). Compare Frank. Displaced native Old English Francland.
/fɹæns/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is France?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,343, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
74 babies in 1918, the peak
France peaked in 1918, when 74 babies were given it (35 girls, #1,286 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,738 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,343 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,179 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,170 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,219 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #8,856 | |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,159 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,856 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,043 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,784 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 7 | #9,087 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,926 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,797 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,054 | 6 | #5,885 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,010 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,058 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,342 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,016 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,755 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,472 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,983 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,949 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,185 | 5 | #5,167 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,316 | 5 | #4,966 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,812 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,286 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,997 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,784 | 7 | #3,335 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,558 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,617 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,643 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,683 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,508 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,592 | 6 | #3,792 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,683 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,141 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,015 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,223 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,442 | 5 | #4,052 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,379 | 6 | #3,571 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,322 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,605 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,570 | 6 | #3,481 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,375 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,458 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,742 | 6 | #3,437 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,221 | 11 | #2,415 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,096 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,711 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,672 | 5 | #3,599 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,473 | 6 | #3,346 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,335 | 8 | #2,783 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,904 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,053 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,336 | 10 | #2,335 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,269 | 7 | #2,976 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,866 | 6 | #3,281 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,738 | 8 | #2,714 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,464 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,803 | 9 | #2,624 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,197 | 7 | #3,102 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,900 | 9 | #2,710 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,346 | 5 | #3,975 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,768 | 8 | #3,119 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,037 | 9 | #2,826 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,669 | 8 | #3,185 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,051 | 11 | #2,587 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,897 | 7 | #3,509 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,317 | 8 | #3,236 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,625 | 9 | #3,102 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,399 | 14 | #2,263 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,528 | 6 | #4,018 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,155 | 12 | #2,539 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,563 | 14 | #2,257 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,666 | 17 | #1,911 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,286 | 39 | #1,100 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,238 | 15 | #2,025 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,721 | 17 | #1,796 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,447 | 9 | #2,704 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,501 | 6 | #3,042 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,217 | 5 | #2,989 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,752 | 7 | #2,119 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,293 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,008 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,404 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,233 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,670 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,567 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is France a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,538 Americans recorded as France, 75% are girls and 25% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named France: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named France, and how old are they?
An estimated 640 Americans named France and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 54 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,043 people named France (1,687 women and girls, 356 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 744 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form France rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,739 babies since 1880, France is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 none of their 59 babies recorded by SSA was a France (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as France
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about France and names like it
- Compare France and FrancieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sFrance peaked in 1918.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named France since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named France.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named France alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.