Francis — #450 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Francis

The Social Security Administration has registered 289,720 babies named Francis between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Francis currently holds the #450 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 6,347 babies received it in a single year. Francis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 29,710 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Francis performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 59,096 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Francis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 43,368 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Francis in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Francis 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 289,720 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.