first name
FRANCES
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 201,693 people named Frances, 75.4% reported their origin as White, 10.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 9.2% as Black. 99.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Frances peaked in 1918, when 16,229 babies got the name.
At least 600,721 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Frances by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #18. The largest share of babies named Frances, 41.7%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Frances is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Frances has been most common in South Carolina (1.9×), West Virginia (1.7×), and Virginia (1.6×), and least common in Nevada (0.18×).
539,011 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Frances
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Frances, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Frances ranks #13,871 of 156,621, with 2,086 people. See Frances as a last name
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