Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Fran” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fran” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Fran” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Fran” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Fran” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Fran” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Fran” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fran” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1912 6 0.000006072 6 100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 100%
1918 21 0.000009672 16 5 52%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1924 17 0.000007138 17 100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 100%
1926 15 0.000006533 15 100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 100%
1928 14 0.000006192 14 100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 100%
1930 12 0.000005397 12 100%
1931 12 0.000005702 12 100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 100%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 100%
1934 27 0.000013001 27 100%
1935 43 0.000020575 34 9 58%
1936 28 0.000013477 28 100%
1937 47 0.000022059 47 100%
1938 43 0.000019434 43 100%
1939 68 0.000030861 61 7 79%
1940 60 0.000026057 60 100%
1941 77 0.000031604 70 7 82%
1942 116 0.000042463 107 9 84%
1943 133 0.00004712 133 100%
1944 113 0.000042006 113 100%
1945 106 0.000039956 100 6 89%
1946 175 0.000054768 165 10 89%
1947 169 0.000046914 161 8 91%
1948 155 0.000044895 146 9 88%
1949 116 0.000033288 116 100%
1950 97 0.000027688 97 100%
1951 157 0.00004262 149 8 90%
1952 138 0.000036335 138 100%
1953 152 0.000039443 152 100%
1954 150 0.000037682 150 100%
1955 182 0.000045329 177 5 95%
1956 161 0.000039049 161 100%
1957 201 0.000047833 190 11 89%
1958 230 0.000055637 210 20 83%
1959 285 0.000068543 270 15 89%
1960 297 0.000071501 280 17 89%
1961 260 0.000062767 247 13 90%
1962 180 0.000044606 164 16 82%
1963 145 0.000036633 132 13 82%
1964 128 0.000032925 116 12 81%
1965 109 0.000030065 100 9 83%
1966 92 0.00002647 87 5 89%
1967 77 0.000022681 70 7 82%
1968 53 0.000015688 53 100%
1969 50 0.000014387 45 5 80%
1970 46 0.000012755 39 7 70%
1971 47 0.000013693 39 8 66%
1972 18 0.000005727 18 100%
1973 28 0.000009281 28 100%
1974 25 0.000008224 25 100%
1975 25 0.00000828 25 100%
1976 33 0.000010876 24 9 45%
1977 33 0.000010389 28 5 70%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 100%
1980 27 0.000007839 17 10 26%
1981 24 0.000006938 15 9 25%
1982 18 0.000005131 13 5 44%
1983 12 0.000003465 7 5 17%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 15 0.000004217 6 9 -20%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 -100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 -100%

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