Francois
Francois was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,274 among boys’ names; 1,823 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Francois and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 25 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Francois by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Francois?
#5,274 among boys’ names, 2025
Francois fell from #4,770 in 2015 to #5,274 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 10.5 per million.
43 babies in 1992, the peak
Francois peaked in 1992, when 43 boys were given it, #1,884 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,274 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,574 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,034 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,944 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,437 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,068 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,200 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,611 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,883 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,871 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,770 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,551 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,740 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,201 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,274 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,229 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,933 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,317 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,249 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,147 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,891 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,578 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,324 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,590 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,210 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,116 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,415 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,130 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,785 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,619 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,044 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,640 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,884 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 43 | #1,884 | 21.5 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,156 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,226 | 15.6 |
| 1989 | 31 | #2,208 | 15.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,538 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 37 | #1,764 | 19.8 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,179 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 34 | #1,770 | 18.4 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,057 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 29 | #1,872 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,948 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,222 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,131 | 14.0 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,065 | 14.5 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,711 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,088 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,267 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,802 | 17.3 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,218 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,895 | 14.8 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,839 | 14.8 |
| 1971 | 25 | #1,800 | 14.1 |
| 1970 | 24 | #1,815 | 12.9 |
| 1969 | 24 | #1,694 | 13.4 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,748 | 12.1 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,484 | 15.5 |
| 1966 | 22 | #1,665 | 12.3 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,637 | 12.4 |
| 1964 | 28 | #1,495 | 14.1 |
| 1963 | 25 | #1,600 | 12.3 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,722 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 30 | #1,473 | 14.1 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,355 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 24 | #1,637 | 11.2 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,698 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,891 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,311 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,837 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,989 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,997 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 22 | #1,635 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,729 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,485 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,152 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,370 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,735 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,318 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,482 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,347 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,583 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,684 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,243 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,939 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,979 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,727 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,071 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,315 | 10.7 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,944 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,120 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,245 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,454 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,468 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,644 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,391 | 11.5 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,674 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,105 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,036 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,051 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,208 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,760 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,616 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,014 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,558 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,043 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,120 | 16.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Francois a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Francois has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 108 years of records.
Girls and boys named Francois: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Francois, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 1,823 Americans ever recorded as Francois. The median Francois alive today is 39 years old; half are between 25 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 4,448 people named Francois (94 women and girls, 4,354 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,426 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times 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 | 18 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 210 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 324 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 451 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 249 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 187 |
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 Francois born?
The states with the most babies named Francois are New York, California and Florida, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 143 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 113 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Francois 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 322,145 babies since 1880, Francois is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 909 babies (2.0%), again the second 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 Francois
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 Francois and names like it
- Compare Francois and FrancisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sFrancois peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Francois since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Francois.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Francois alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with FMost given first.