How popular is “Frances” in the USA?

Number of people named “Frances” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Frances” 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 “Frances” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Frances” by birth year

This chart shows how “Frances” 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
1880	621	0.003082131	605	16	95%
1881	598	0.003103463	586	12	96%
1882	693	0.003128202	681	12	97%
1883	727	0.003351064	710	17	95%
1884	805	0.003306484	789	16	96%
1885	856	0.00355402	844	12	97%
1886	1071	0.004194802	1059	12	98%
1887	1117	0.004515102	1105	12	98%
1888	1467	0.004898589	1452	15	98%
1889	1366	0.004727527	1351	15	98%
1890	1428	0.004737874	1416	12	98%
1891	1407	0.004908031	1397	10	99%
1892	1680	0.005024314	1670	10	99%
1893	1642	0.005048844	1622	20	98%
1894	1793	0.005293927	1776	17	98%
1895	1849	0.005267506	1833	16	98%
1896	1983	0.005547102	1964	19	98%
1897	1993	0.005744228	1975	18	98%
1898	2400	0.006291699	2379	21	98%
1899	2070	0.006101983	2058	12	99%
1900	2514	0.005583466	2495	19	98%
1901	2096	0.006061097	2071	25	98%
1902	2345	0.006063615	2326	19	98%
1903	2382	0.006248688	2365	17	99%
1904	2680	0.006642131	2657	23	98%
1905	2910	0.00686447	2887	23	98%
1906	3048	0.007113999	3026	22	99%
1907	3332	0.007159587	3299	33	98%
1908	3614	0.007395902	3593	21	99%
1909	3800	0.007433141	3780	20	99%
1910	4486	0.007594238	4448	38	98%
1911	5003	0.007765281	4967	36	99%
1912	6726	0.006807265	6680	46	99%
1913	7753	0.006818162	7694	59	98%
1914	9754	0.006886745	9677	77	98%
1915	12877	0.007027296	12786	91	99%
1916	13853	0.007161331	13746	107	98%
1917	14435	0.007193223	14363	72	99%
1918	16228	0.007474514	16131	97	99%
1919	15208	0.007206746	15107	101	99%
1920	15991	0.007067399	15883	108	99%
1921	16099	0.006896108	15993	106	99%
1922	15149	0.006617723	15054	95	99%
1923	14986	0.006508631	14881	105	99%
1924	15288	0.006419187	15183	105	99%
1925	13939	0.005973937	13825	114	98%
1926	13469	0.005866532	13355	114	98%
1927	13113	0.00565372	12988	125	98%
1928	12277	0.005430047	12137	140	98%
1929	11187	0.005103183	11092	95	98%
1930	10771	0.004844626	10644	127	98%
1931	9836	0.004674043	9718	118	98%
1932	9663	0.00457682	9552	111	98%
1933	8966	0.00448424	8882	84	98%
1934	9318	0.004486676	9207	111	98%
1935	8862	0.004240394	8770	92	98%
1936	8853	0.004261212	8789	64	99%
1937	9142	0.004290669	9057	85	98%
1938	8990	0.004063141	8922	68	98%
1939	8642	0.003922046	8577	65	98%
1940	8681	0.003769947	8621	60	99%
1941	8530	0.003501031	8468	62	99%
1942	9530	0.003488519	9471	59	99%
1943	9505	0.003367512	9448	57	99%
1944	8550	0.003178345	8487	63	99%
1945	7978	0.003007264	7940	38	99%
1946	8481	0.002654205	8450	31	99%
1947	9000	0.002498389	8943	57	99%
1948	8212	0.002378554	8179	33	99%
1949	7486	0.002148201	7440	46	99%
1950	7010	0.002000937	6974	36	99%
1951	6627	0.001798987	6584	43	99%
1952	6124	0.001612425	6079	45	99%
1953	5825	0.001511556	5786	39	99%
1954	5185	0.001302532	5153	32	99%
1955	4696	0.001169591	4641	55	98%
1956	4367	0.001059171	4325	42	98%
1957	4133	0.000983546	4094	39	98%
1958	3883	0.000939306	3847	36	98%
1959	3753	0.000902599	3717	36	98%
1960	3623	0.00087221	3592	31	98%
1961	3447	0.000832146	3420	27	98%
1962	3029	0.000750612	3003	26	98%
1963	2780	0.000702339	2745	35	97%
1964	2636	0.000678052	2599	37	97%
1965	2286	0.000630543	2262	24	98%
1966	2145	0.00061715	2126	19	98%
1967	1885	0.000555245	1868	17	98%
1968	1772	0.000524507	1745	27	97%
1969	1665	0.000479092	1640	25	97%
1970	1646	0.000456396	1628	18	98%
1971	1478	0.000430608	1453	25	97%
1972	1294	0.000411709	1280	14	98%
1973	1172	0.00038848	1156	16	97%
1974	1087	0.000357566	1068	19	97%
1975	1044	0.000345765	1030	14	97%
1976	964	0.000317701	948	16	97%
1977	958	0.00030159	940	18	96%
1978	944	0.000297429	924	20	96%
1979	927	0.000278629	913	14	97%
1980	950	0.000275802	938	12	97%
1981	939	0.000271436	925	14	97%
1982	923	0.000263116	904	19	96%
1983	894	0.000258132	875	19	96%
1984	876	0.000251092	855	21	95%
1985	849	0.000237874	834	15	96%
1986	784	0.000220406	765	19	95%
1987	818	0.000226868	805	13	97%
1988	824	0.000223001	807	17	96%
1989	798	0.000207572	781	17	96%
1990	771	0.000195067	759	12	97%
1991	732	0.00018792	711	21	94%
1992	686	0.000178587	668	18	95%
1993	653	0.000173197	641	12	96%
1994	615	0.000165427	608	7	98%
1995	581	0.00015865	571	10	97%
1996	554	0.000151898	544	10	96%
1997	536	0.000147832	531	5	98%
1998	557	0.000151432	547	10	96%
1999	494	0.000133735	488	6	98%
2000	460	0.000121696	454	6	97%
2001	435	0.000116205	429	6	97%
2002	423	0.000113153	415	8	96%
2003	456	0.000119927	449	7	97%
2004	435	0.000113847	427	8	96%
2005	355	0.000092331	355		100%
2006	366	0.000092513	360	6	97%
2007	352	0.000088051	347	5	97%
2008	375	0.000095404	368	7	96%
2009	355	0.000092928	355		100%
2010	361	0.00009768	356	5	97%
2011	348	0.000095139	348		100%
2012	369	0.000100892	364	5	97%
2013	415	0.000113834	409	6	97%
2014	484	0.000130586	484		100%
2015	619	0.000167256	613	6	98%
2016	726	0.00019789	721	5	99%
2017	735	0.000205526	730	5	99%
2018	723	0.000205637	723		100%
2019	723	0.000208301	718	5	99%
2020	754	0.00022571	744	10	97%
2021	810	0.000239083	801	9	98%
2022	755	0.000223166	755		100%
2023	760	0.000229524	760		100%
2024	829	0.000249061	821	8	98%

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