Francesco — #1240 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Francesco

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,299 babies named Francesco between 1906 and 2024, spanning 119 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Francesco currently holds the #1240 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 166 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Francesco performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,478 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Francesco shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 2,615 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Francesco in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Francesco 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 8,299 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.