Fran
Fran reached its high-water mark in 1960 at number 592, and has been recorded 5,339 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 3,900 Frans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Fran boys named Fran
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,339
- Estimated living today
- 3,900
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 592nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 4,965 / 374
How old the living Frans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,339 babies given the name since 1912, about 3,900 are alive — 73 in every hundred. Roughly 30 of them are children and 2,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Frans
- Fran Drescher (born 1957)American actress
- Fran García (born 1999)Spanish association football player
- Fran Mérida (born 1990)Spanish association football player
- Fran Lebowitz (born 1950)American author and public speaker
- Fran Walsh (born 1959)New Zealand screenwriter and producer
- Fran Beltrán (born 1999)Spanish association football player
- Fran Kirby (born 1993)English association football player
- Fran Krsto Frankopan (1643–1671)Croatian baroque poet, nobleman and politician
People named Fran with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Fran is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Fran is most concentrated in New York (5.2×), New Jersey (1.9×), Louisiana (1.7×), Georgia (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular girls’ names the year Fran peaked:
Fran elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium girls | Fran | 1,916 | 93rd |
| Switzerland boys | Fran | 26 | 1,403rd |
| England and Wales boys | Fran | 20 | 2,282nd |
| France girls | Fran | 5 | 3,322nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Fran: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Fran | 24 | 0.002% | 1,087th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Fran | 1 | 0.000% | 727th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Fran | 1 | 0.002% | 199th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Fran: rank by region
In 2025, Fran was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Fran | 87 | 61 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Fran appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (53rd), Province of East Flanders (60th), Province of Limburg (117th) and Province of West Flanders (120th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Fran lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,401 men called Fran were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castellón/Castelló | Fran | 63 | 0.202 | 440 |
| Soria | Fran | 9 | 0.196 | 410 |
| Valencia/València | Fran | 229 | 0.169 | 455 |
| Huelva | Fran | 28 | 0.105 | 602 |
| Albacete | Fran | 20 | 0.102 | 612 |
| Córdoba | Fran | 34 | 0.090 | 493 |
Listed in 42 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 10 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Fran against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.