Francoise
About 620 American babies have been named Francoise since 1917, most of them around 1967. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 470 Francoises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Francoise
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 620
- Estimated living today
- 470
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1967
- Best rank
- 2,212th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Francoises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 620 babies given the name since 1917, about 470 are alive — 77 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 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 Francoises
- Françoise Sagan (1935–2004)French writer
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 1947)French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
- Françoise Hardy (1944–2024)French singer
- Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719)Mistress and later secret wife of King Louis XIV of France
- Françoise Dorléac (1942–1967)French actress
- Françoise Mbango Etone (born 1976)Cameroonian and French athletics competitor
- Françoise Gilot (1921–2023)French painter, art critic, writer and beloved of Pablo Picasso
- Françoise Giroud (1916–2003)French writer and politician
People named Francoise with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Francoise is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Francoise is most concentrated in New York (9.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1967
The most popular girls’ names the year Francoise peaked:
Francoise elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Françoise +1 spelling | 401,505 | 2nd |
| Belgium girls | Françoise | 22 | 1,000th |
| France boys | Françoise | 15 | 852nd |
| England and Wales girls | Francoise | 12 | 3,382nd |
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.
Francoise among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Françoise | 876 | 3,599 |
| Finland girls | Francoise +1 spelling | 13 | 35 |
| the Netherlands boys | Françoise | — | 32 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 3,599 who carry it, 876 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Francoise lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 338 women called Françoise 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Françoise | 41 | 0.040 | 1,540 |
| Balears, Illes | Françoise | 23 | 0.037 | 1,613 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Françoise | 9 | 0.029 | 1,762 |
| Girona | Françoise | 11 | 0.027 | 1,917 |
| Tarragona | Françoise | 11 | 0.025 | 2,007 |
| Málaga | Françoise | 20 | 0.022 | 2,049 |
Listed in 19 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 33 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
Francoise against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.