Francena
Francena was last recorded in 1976, when 7 babies were given it; 623 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Francena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Francena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,548, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1948, the peak
Francena peaked in 1948, when 23 girls were given it, #2,029 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 7 | #7,548 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,768 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,891 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,483 | 3.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,028 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,458 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,176 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,936 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,470 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,879 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 8 | #4,904 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,207 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,427 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,371 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,964 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,274 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,563 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,543 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,714 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,268 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,473 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,087 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,029 | 13.5 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,381 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,930 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,374 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,823 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,599 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,882 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,446 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,859 | 16.6 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,468 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,278 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,803 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,739 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,257 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,999 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,594 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,169 | 14.1 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,976 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,924 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,225 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,670 | 10.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,480 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,772 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,483 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,580 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,755 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,476 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,837 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,976 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,108 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,857 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,692 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,781 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,332 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,369 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,146 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Francena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Francena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Francena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Francena, and how old are they?
An estimated 285 Americans named Francena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 67 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 349 people named Francena (347 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 348 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
Where are babies named Francena born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 180 | not ranked | 14.7× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Francena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Francena is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1912 it was given 14.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Francena with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 40,788 babies since 1880, Francena is the fourth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 108 babies recorded by SSA was a Francena (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 Francena
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 Francena and names like it
- Compare Francena and FrancineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sFrancena peaked in 1948.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Francena since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Francena.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Francena alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.