France — unisex name

What the Data Says About France

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,159 babies named France between 1894 and 2015, spanning 122 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, France currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 35 babies received it in a single year. France is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 379 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that France performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 188 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, France shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list France in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for France 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 1,159 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.