Fran
Fran is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 593rd, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1960280 births
- Best rank
- #593in 1960
- Since 1912
- 5,333people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,965 girls have been named Fran in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 280 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 280 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 34%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 368 boys have also been given it, 6.9% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Fran | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 66 | |
| 1920s | 106 | |
| 1930s | 279 | |
| 1940s | 1,171 | |
| 1950s | 1,694 | |
| 1960s | 1,294 | |
| 1970s | 258 | |
| 1980s | 86 | |
| 1990s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Fran was the 593rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Fran
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lynnepeak 1960
- Conniepeak 1955
- Gayepeak 1960
- Donnapeak 1959
- Sherrilpeak 1953
- Maureenpeak 1957
- Dianepeak 1955
- Karanpeak 1956
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.