Franco
Franco was given to 348 boys in 2025, #747 among boys’ names; 9,107 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,780 Americans named Franco and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Franco by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Franco mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Franco is “a male given name from Italian or Spanish, equivalent to English Frank or Francis.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Franco?
#747 among boys’ names, 2025
Franco rose from #876 in 2015 to #747 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.13 to 0.20 per 1,000.
353 babies in 2016, the peak
Franco peaked in 2016, when 353 boys were given it, #702 among boys’ names. The 348 births of 2025 are 99% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 348 | #747 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 345 | #745 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 325 | #780 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 291 | #839 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 268 | #866 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 233 | #945 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 262 | #853 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 279 | #808 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 328 | #727 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 353 | #702 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 254 | #876 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 275 | #825 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 234 | #890 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 204 | #980 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 206 | #961 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 254 | #839 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 307 | #748 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 264 | #830 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,054 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 203 | #930 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 207 | #881 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 195 | #888 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,150 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,203 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 117 | #1,173 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,176 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,420 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,456 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,425 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,237 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,325 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,193 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 91 | #1,169 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,058 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,244 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 71 | #1,315 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,106 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,214 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,206 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,233 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,002 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,184 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 83 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 106 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 87 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 79 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 81 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 97 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 89 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 68 | #996 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 68 | #980 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,104 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 37 | #1,406 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,105 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,103 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,106 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 53 | #999 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,183 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 33 | #1,340 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 40 | #1,223 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 20 | #1,809 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 26 | #1,560 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,706 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,597 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 27 | #1,530 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,409 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,909 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,353 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,282 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,399 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,264 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Franco a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Franco has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Franco: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Franco, and how old are they?
8,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 9,107 Americans ever recorded as Franco. The median Franco alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 10,542 people named Franco (72 women and girls, 10,470 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,116 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 177 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 931 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,770 |
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 Franco born?
The states with the most babies named Franco are Texas, California and Florida, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 57 | #564 | 1.4× |
| California | 54 | #560 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 46 | #426 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 18 | #535 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 18 | #434 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #557 | 0.8× |
| New York | 16 | #857 | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 9 | #759 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 8 | #743 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,066 | 0.5× |
Where Franco is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Franco is most over-represented in Florida: since 1923 it was given 1.7 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 boys’ 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 Franco 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 12,647 babies since 1880, Franco is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 348 of their 390 babies (89%), again the most given.
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 Franco
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 Franco and names like it
- Compare Franco and FrankyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFranco peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Franco since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Franco: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Franco.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Franco alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.