Francesca — #314 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Francesca

The Social Security Administration has registered 34,337 babies named Francesca between 1895 and 2024, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Francesca currently holds the #314 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 975 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Francesca performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 7,019 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Francesca shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5,999 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Francesca in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Francesca 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 34,337 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.