Franky
Franky was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,206 among boys’ names; 3,144 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,750 Americans named Franky and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Franky by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Franky?
#3,206 among boys’ names, 2025
Franky rose from #3,542 in 2015 to #3,206 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 16.2 to 21.7 per million.
94 babies in 2007, the peak
Franky peaked in 2007, when 94 boys were given it, #1,640 among boys’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,206 | 21.7 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,348 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,367 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,358 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,144 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,154 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,441 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,395 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 45 | #2,727 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,312 | 30.0 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,542 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,553 | 25.0 |
| 2013 | 47 | #2,571 | 24.8 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,788 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,557 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,242 | 30.2 |
| 2009 | 54 | #2,386 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 72 | #1,972 | 35.3 |
| 2007 | 94 | #1,640 | 45.3 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,977 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,211 | 27.0 |
| 2004 | 67 | #1,839 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 44 | #2,400 | 22.3 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,070 | 26.8 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,393 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 58 | #1,834 | 29.5 |
| 1999 | 57 | #1,763 | 29.7 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,132 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,273 | 19.6 |
| 1996 | 48 | #1,877 | 25.3 |
| 1995 | 57 | #1,604 | 29.9 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,051 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 44 | #1,872 | 22.4 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,009 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,802 | 21.8 |
| 1990 | 46 | #1,734 | 22.4 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,113 | 16.5 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,855 | 18.8 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,838 | 18.7 |
| 1986 | 32 | #1,886 | 17.4 |
| 1985 | 32 | #1,842 | 17.3 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,190 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,973 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,132 | 13.8 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,439 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 28 | #1,979 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,010 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,404 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,229 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,895 | 16.6 |
| 1975 | 40 | #1,386 | 25.6 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,073 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,748 | 16.7 |
| 1972 | 30 | #1,576 | 18.5 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,612 | 17.0 |
| 1970 | 30 | #1,558 | 16.1 |
| 1969 | 29 | #1,507 | 16.2 |
| 1968 | 30 | #1,439 | 17.3 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,485 | 15.5 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,627 | 12.9 |
| 1965 | 34 | #1,322 | 18.3 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,592 | 12.5 |
| 1963 | 30 | #1,437 | 14.8 |
| 1962 | 34 | #1,350 | 16.4 |
| 1961 | 25 | #1,613 | 11.8 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,257 | 18.3 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,281 | 17.3 |
| 1958 | 25 | #1,565 | 11.8 |
| 1957 | 29 | #1,463 | 13.4 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,262 | 17.5 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,750 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 22 | #1,643 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,778 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 25 | #1,528 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,313 | 17.0 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,507 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,780 | 10.1 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,575 | 12.5 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,325 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,907 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,453 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,022 | 9.5 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,104 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,584 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,727 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,019 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,242 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,117 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,939 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,505 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,598 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,096 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,134 | 12.1 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,234 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,541 | 9.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,364 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,461 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Franky a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,144 Americans recorded as Franky, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 37 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Franky: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Franky, and how old are they?
2,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 3,144 Americans ever recorded as Franky. The median Franky alive today is 29 years old; half are between 17 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 2,941 people named Franky (225 women and girls, 2,716 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,645 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 341 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 393 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 571 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 886 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 518 |
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 Franky born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,732 | 1.7× |
Where Franky is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Franky is most over-represented in California: since 1925 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 Franky with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Franky?
Franky is a less common spelling of Frankie: SSA has recorded 3,144 Franky and 79,430 Frankie since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 92,221 babies since 1880, Franky is the third most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 1,195 babies (3.1%), again the third 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 Franky
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 Franky and names like it
- Compare Franky and FrankieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sFranky peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Franky since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Franky.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Franky alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.