Fanchon
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Fanchon has been given to 519 babies in the U.S. since 1897. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 49 recorded.
Babies named Fanchon, 1991
1 in 354,000
Fanchon over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Fanchon?
Fanchon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 354,000
- 11 of 3,892,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 170,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 245,308 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Fanchon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 245,308 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fanchon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Fanchons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Fanchon was born before 1935 — so the typical Fanchon is around 90 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 23.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 35.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 195
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (124).
Is Fanchon rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (49)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 52.5% average annual change
Where Fanchon is used
Across 1910–2025, Fanchon was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 530,001 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fanchon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Fanchon around the world
Where Fanchon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1970–2019#6,997in 2019
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Fanchon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Fanchon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Fanchon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.