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Franchesca

Franchesca reached its high-water mark in 1992 at number 1,059, and has been recorded 4,394 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,554th. About 4,300 Franchescas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Franchesca

By the numbers

Total US births
4,394
Estimated living today
4,300
Median age today
28
Peak year
1992
Best rank
1,059th
Rank in 2025
5,554th
First recorded
1955

How old the living Franchescas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,394 babies given the name since 1955, about 4,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 780 of them are children and 19 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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.

Where Franchesca is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Franchesca is most concentrated in Florida (4.0×), California (2.9×), New Mexico (2.8×), New Jersey (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1992

The most popular girls’ names the year Franchesca peaked:

All the names of 1992

Franchesca elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Franchesca 240 1,583rd
France girls Franchesca 50 7,193rd

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.

Where Franchesca lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 177 women called Franchesca were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Lleida Franchesca 12 0.054 1,175
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Franchesca 7 0.013 4,377
Zaragoza Franchesca 6 0.012 3,085
Balears, Illes Franchesca 7 0.011 3,846
Málaga Franchesca 9 0.010 3,745
Alicante/Alacant Franchesca 10 0.010 4,342

Listed in 8 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 44 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.

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Franchesca 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.