Francess
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Francess has been given to 182 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1917, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Francess, 2023
1 in 663,000
Francess 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Francess?
Francess had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Francess sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Francess. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Francesss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Francess was born before 1928 — so the typical Francess is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 42.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 49
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (77).
Is Francess 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 1917 (12)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.3% average annual change
Spellings of Francess
Francess is not the most common spelling — Frances is, with 87.4% against Francess's 0.03%.
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.
Francess around the world
Where Francess 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.
- France1989–2020#6,979in 2020
- South Australia2007–2007#803in 2007
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Francess by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Francess
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Francess
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.