Franci
Franci was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 230 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Franci by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Franci?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,294, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1966, the peak
Franci peaked in 1966, when 15 girls were given it, #3,302 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #16,294 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,045 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,420 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,271 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,311 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,208 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,801 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,427 | 4.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,785 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,526 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 10 | #5,474 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,736 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,127 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,675 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,578 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,892 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,362 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,133 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,302 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,025 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,735 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,494 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,471 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,905 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,565 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,631 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,997 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,882 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,954 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,844 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,573 | 5.6 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,931 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Franci a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Franci has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Franci: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Franci, and how old are they?
An estimated 204 Americans named Franci and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 49 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 638 people named Franci (449 women and girls, 189 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 212 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Franci rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Franci?
Franci is a less common spelling of Francie: SSA has recorded 230 Franci and 1,905 Francie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,417 babies since 1880, Franci is the sixth most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 44 babies recorded by SSA was a Franci (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 Franci
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 Franci and names like it
- Compare Franci and FrancieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sFranci peaked in 1966.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Franci.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Franci alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with FMost given first.