How popular is “Francis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Francis” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Francis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Francis” 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	399	0.001980306	55	344	-72%
1881	306	0.001588059	47	259	-69%
1882	381	0.001719834	54	327	-72%
1883	339	0.001562601	54	285	-68%
1884	396	0.001626544	56	340	-72%
1885	385	0.001598479	66	319	-66%
1886	425	0.001664604	81	344	-62%
1887	409	0.001653247	82	327	-60%
1888	441	0.001472582	88	353	-60%
1889	434	0.001502011	88	346	-59%
1890	464	0.001539477	101	363	-56%
1891	421	0.001468572	88	333	-58%
1892	535	0.001600005	106	429	-60%
1893	525	0.001614277	107	418	-59%
1894	531	0.001567805	108	423	-59%
1895	606	0.001726397	126	480	-58%
1896	665	0.001860223	114	551	-66%
1897	611	0.001761025	115	496	-62%
1898	665	0.001743325	124	541	-63%
1899	602	0.001774586	101	501	-66%
1900	811	0.00180119	159	652	-61%
1901	669	0.001934577	126	543	-62%
1902	737	0.001905708	140	597	-62%
1903	774	0.00203043	109	665	-72%
1904	808	0.002002553	122	686	-70%
1905	834	0.001967343	149	685	-64%
1906	876	0.002044575	139	737	-68%
1907	879	0.001888738	162	717	-63%
1908	1019	0.002085341	166	853	-67%
1909	1043	0.002040202	157	886	-70%
1910	1227	0.002077158	227	1000	-63%
1911	1545	0.002398033	234	1311	-70%
1912	2789	0.002822697	273	2516	-80%
1913	3504	0.003081496	299	3205	-83%
1914	4286	0.003026101	385	3901	-82%
1915	6097	0.003327283	503	5594	-84%
1916	6171	0.003190108	519	5652	-83%
1917	6428	0.003203189	627	5801	-80%
1918	7000	0.003224156	653	6347	-81%
1919	6399	0.003032349	673	5726	-79%
1920	6894	0.003046879	653	6241	-81%
1921	6954	0.00297879	661	6293	-81%
1922	6754	0.002950432	607	6147	-82%
1923	6709	0.002913813	622	6087	-81%
1924	6777	0.002845554	646	6131	-81%
1925	6638	0.002844895	660	5978	-80%
1926	6441	0.00280543	652	5789	-80%
1927	6209	0.002677034	565	5644	-82%
1928	6087	0.002692245	571	5516	-81%
1929	5743	0.002619789	473	5270	-84%
1930	5457	0.002454473	467	4990	-83%
1931	5108	0.002427309	373	4735	-85%
1932	4787	0.002267333	399	4388	-83%
1933	4459	0.002230117	366	4093	-84%
1934	4361	0.002099849	355	4006	-84%
1935	4275	0.002045552	381	3894	-82%
1936	4195	0.002019178	319	3876	-85%
1937	4042	0.001897056	312	3730	-85%
1938	4256	0.001923551	305	3951	-86%
1939	4020	0.001824418	299	3721	-85%
1940	3924	0.001704098	317	3607	-84%
1941	4056	0.001664734	318	3738	-84%
1942	4592	0.001680932	295	4297	-87%
1943	4380	0.001551783	312	4068	-86%
1944	3967	0.001474678	316	3651	-84%
1945	3694	0.001392433	245	3449	-87%
1946	4268	0.001335709	262	4006	-88%
1947	4504	0.001250305	297	4207	-87%
1948	4478	0.001297024	263	4215	-88%
1949	4538	0.001302236	256	4282	-89%
1950	4336	0.00123767	254	4082	-88%
1951	4433	0.001203397	233	4200	-89%
1952	4229	0.001113479	250	3979	-88%
1953	4088	0.001060814	213	3875	-90%
1954	3914	0.000983242	228	3686	-88%
1955	3641	0.000906831	202	3439	-89%
1956	3479	0.000843795	178	3301	-90%
1957	3136	0.000746286	200	2936	-87%
1958	2792	0.000675391	173	2619	-88%
1959	2831	0.000680858	183	2648	-87%
1960	2612	0.00062882	193	2419	-85%
1961	2547	0.000614876	203	2344	-84%
1962	2470	0.000612087	177	2293	-86%
1963	2326	0.000587641	152	2174	-87%
1964	2201	0.000566158	134	2067	-88%
1965	1938	0.000534554	123	1815	-87%
1966	1820	0.000523642	124	1696	-86%
1967	1705	0.000502224	122	1583	-86%
1968	1639	0.000485139	123	1516	-85%
1969	1574	0.000452908	145	1429	-82%
1970	1528	0.000423678	138	1390	-82%
1971	1340	0.000390403	131	1209	-80%
1972	1109	0.000352848	120	989	-78%
1973	1094	0.000362625	115	979	-79%
1974	1001	0.000329276	113	888	-77%
1975	1092	0.000361662	135	957	-75%
1976	966	0.00031836	130	836	-73%
1977	1040	0.000327405	143	897	-73%
1978	1075	0.000338703	135	940	-75%
1979	1050	0.0003156	120	930	-77%
1980	1075	0.000312091	153	922	-72%
1981	1127	0.000325781	153	974	-73%
1982	1132	0.000322694	151	981	-73%
1983	1078	0.00031126	117	961	-78%
1984	1027	0.000294374	125	902	-76%
1985	1073	0.000300635	138	935	-74%
1986	1050	0.000295186	135	915	-74%
1987	1115	0.00030924	166	949	-70%
1988	1097	0.000296884	145	952	-74%
1989	1064	0.000276763	143	921	-73%
1990	1076	0.000272234	157	919	-71%
1991	986	0.000253128	162	824	-67%
1992	947	0.000246533	144	803	-70%
1993	890	0.000236057	137	753	-69%
1994	860	0.000231329	134	726	-69%
1995	858	0.000234288	161	697	-62%
1996	743	0.000203718	136	607	-63%
1997	740	0.000204096	112	628	-70%
1998	701	0.000190582	121	580	-65%
1999	659	0.000178404	117	542	-64%
2000	675	0.000178576	116	559	-66%
2001	640	0.000170968	94	546	-71%
2002	562	0.000150336	98	464	-65%
2003	548	0.000144123	83	465	-70%
2004	527	0.000137925	71	456	-73%
2005	527	0.000137067	64	463	-76%
2006	512	0.000129417	61	451	-76%
2007	478	0.000119569	76	402	-68%
2008	440	0.00011194	72	368	-67%
2009	413	0.00010811	54	359	-74%
2010	403	0.000109045	45	358	-78%
2011	439	0.000120018	52	387	-76%
2012	474	0.000129601	44	430	-81%
2013	596	0.000163482	58	538	-81%
2014	657	0.000177262	64	593	-81%
2015	686	0.00018536	64	622	-81%
2016	719	0.000195982	81	638	-77%
2017	739	0.000206644	78	661	-79%
2018	685	0.000194829	75	610	-78%
2019	695	0.000200234	90	605	-74%
2020	694	0.000207749	78	616	-78%
2021	725	0.000213994	88	637	-76%
2022	732	0.000216367	68	664	-81%
2023	772	0.000233148	97	675	-75%
2024	785	0.000235842	92	693	-77%

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