Franka
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Franka has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 2008, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Franka, 2008
1 in 562,000
Franka 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Franka?
Franka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 562,000
- 7 of 3,930,727 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 389,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Franka sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 389,226 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Franka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Frankas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Franka was born before 2006 — so the typical Franka is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 70.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Franka 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 2008 (7)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Franka
Franka is not the most common spelling — Frankie is, with 50.0% against Franka's 0.02%.
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.
Franka around the world
Where Franka 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 & Wales2005–2020#5,493in 2020
- France1960–1969#2,020in 1969
- Canada2014–2014#3,202in 2014
- South Australia1959–1983#686in 1983
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.
Franka by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Franka
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Franka
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.