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Francesa

Girls' name

English equivalent of Frances

Francesa has been given to 62 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1983, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Francesa, 1996

1 in 608,000

Francesa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Francesa: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Frances

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Francesa means

Francesa is a English equivalent of Frances.

Origin, language, and formation

Francesa is used in Occitan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frances.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 62 girls were recorded with the name Francesa between 1978 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1983; its best national rank was #8,312 in 1983.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Francesa?

Francesa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,646,048 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1996
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,209 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Francesa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 421,209 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Francesa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Francesas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Francesa was born before 1988 — so the typical Francesa is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
62
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (26).

Is Francesa 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 1983 (7)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,312
1983

Spellings of Francesa

Francesa is not the most common spelling — Frances is, with 86.7% against Francesa's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Francesa around the world

Where Francesa 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.

  • France
    1926–1947
    #1,392
    in 1947

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Francesa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,312
1983
Peak year
1983
7 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
62
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Francesa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

FranyeliFranklynFrancelyFranklynnFranyelisFranchonFrancileFrancyneFranniePareesaFrantasiaFranceseFranceenFrancessFrankeeFranceeFrancelysFrancescSantresaFranciseFranceskaMarquesaFrancysFrancelle

Sibling names for Francesa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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