Franceska
#12,330 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Franceska has been given to 376 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #12,330 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Franceska, 2025
1 in 474,000
Franceska 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Franceska?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,330
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Franceska sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Franceska. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Franceskas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Franceska was born before 2003 — so the typical Franceska is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 29.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 56.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 376
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (109).
Is Franceska 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,690
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,015
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.40×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 43.8%
- Peak was 1998 (16)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.5% average annual change
Spellings of Franceska
Franceska is not the most common spelling — Frances is, with 91.5% against Franceska's 0.06%.
- Frances91.5%595,697
- Francesca5.4%35,331
- Francisca1.9%12,582
- Franchesca0.67%4,394
- Francheska0.30%1,960
- Francena0.10%623
- Franceska0.06%376
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.
Where Franceska is used
Across 1910–2025, Franceska was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,592,652 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 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. Franceska has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Franceska around the world
Where Franceska 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.
- England & Wales1997–2019#5,591in 2019
- France1949–2021#5,387in 2021
- Canada1991–2011#2,838in 2011
- South Australia1949–1976#645in 1976
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Franceska by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Franceska
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Franceska
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.