Francina
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Francina has been given to 1,626 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1950, with 46 recorded.
Babies named Francina, 2016
1 in 612,000
Francina 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Francina?
Francina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 612,000
- 6 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 295,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 423,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Francina sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Francina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Francinas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Francina was born before 1959 — so the typical Francina is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 21.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,132
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (344).
Is Francina 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1950 (46)
- Years since peak
- 75
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.7% average annual change
Spellings of Francina
Francina is not the most common spelling — Francine is, with 42.1% against Francina's 1.9%.
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 Francina is used
Across 1910–2025, Francina was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 109,650 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 12,500
- 2Florida1 in 50,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5New 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. Francina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Francina around the world
Where Francina 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.
- France1903–2010#6,007in 2010
- South Australia1964–2001#711in 2001
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.
Francina by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Francina
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Francina
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.