Franchesca
Franchesca was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,607 among girls’ names; 4,394 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,290 Americans named Franchesca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Franchesca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Franchesca?
#5,607 among girls’ names, 2025
Franchesca fell from #4,634 in 2015 to #5,607 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 13.7 per million.
172 babies in 1992, the peak
Franchesca peaked in 1992, when 172 girls were given it, #1,060 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,607 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,017 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,221 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,297 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,001 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,718 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,694 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,211 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,325 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,608 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,634 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,608 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,056 | 30.8 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,842 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,671 | 37.5 |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,549 | 40.5 |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,193 | 49.0 |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,111 | 50.8 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,976 | 54.1 |
| 2006 | 115 | #1,800 | 60.5 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,781 | 59.5 |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,648 | 64.3 |
| 2003 | 114 | #1,679 | 62.4 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,511 | 69.6 |
| 2001 | 162 | #1,237 | 90.0 |
| 2000 | 132 | #1,402 | 72.7 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,400 | 71.0 |
| 1998 | 151 | #1,215 | 85.5 |
| 1997 | 141 | #1,259 | 81.0 |
| 1996 | 127 | #1,337 | 72.4 |
| 1995 | 123 | #1,339 | 69.9 |
| 1994 | 116 | #1,392 | 65.0 |
| 1993 | 132 | #1,282 | 73.0 |
| 1992 | 172 | #1,060 | 93.3 |
| 1991 | 139 | #1,225 | 74.1 |
| 1990 | 124 | #1,305 | 65.3 |
| 1989 | 113 | #1,356 | 61.3 |
| 1988 | 118 | #1,250 | 66.3 |
| 1987 | 135 | #1,110 | 77.6 |
| 1986 | 120 | #1,181 | 69.9 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,539 | 45.9 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,709 | 38.0 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,572 | 42.5 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,503 | 22.4 |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,165 | 28.2 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,449 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,031 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,358 | 24.8 |
| 1977 | 53 | #1,884 | 34.6 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,402 | 23.2 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,576 | 20.6 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,571 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,190 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,766 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,752 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,317 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,508 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,216 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,532 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,616 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,808 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,247 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,493 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,095 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,473 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,562 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,778 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,505 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Franchesca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Franchesca has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Franchesca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Franchesca, and how old are they?
4,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,394 Americans ever recorded as Franchesca. The median Franchesca alive today is 29 years old; half are between 21 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 4,630 people named Franchesca (4,621 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,181 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 41 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 417 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 396 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Franchesca born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,265 | 1.6× |
Where Franchesca is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Franchesca is most over-represented in New York: since 1955 it was given 1.8 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 Franchesca 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,354 babies since 1880, Franchesca is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 35 babies (63%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franchesca | 4,394 | 22 | 1992 |
| Francheska | 1,960 | 13 | 1992 |
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 Franchesca
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 Franchesca and names like it
- Compare Franchesca and FrancheskaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sFranchesca peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Franchesca since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Franchesca.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Franchesca alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.