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Franklyn

#4,440 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Franklin

Franklyn has been given to 6,196 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #4,440 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1933, with 133 recorded.

Babies named Franklyn, 2025

1 in 144,000

Franklyn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Franklyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Franklin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Franklyn means

Franklyn is a variant of Franklin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Franklyn → Franklin. The family’s meaning is “freeholder”, recorded in English with the source elements frankelein.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Franklin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,097 boys were recorded with the name Franklyn between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 133 in 1933; its best national rank was #486 in 1933.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,749 in 2020 to #4,440 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,334 in 2015 to #4,440 in 2025.

In the United States, 99 girls were recorded with the name Franklyn between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2019; its best national rank was #4,656 in 1932.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,588 in 2020 to #9,054 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,124 in 2015 to #9,054 in 2025.

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 Franklyn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,440
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Franklyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

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

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Franklyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Franklyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Franklyn was born before 1951 — so the typical Franklyn is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
13.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,148
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Choose a decade

1930s — 13.4% of all recorded uses (819).

Is Franklyn 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
+2,530
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−691
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−106
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.3%
Peak was 1933 (133)
Years since peak
92
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#486
1933

Spellings of Franklyn

Franklyn is not the most common spelling — Franklin is, with 93.9% against Franklyn's 4.0%.

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 Franklyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Franklyn was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 45,123 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 9,091
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Franklyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Franklyn around the world

Where Franklyn 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 & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2018
    #2,281
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1944–1948
    #268
    in 1948

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Franklyn

People whose public names include Franklyn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Franklyn in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Franklyn. Linked forms have their own page here.

FranklinFranklín

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Franklyn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,440
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 691
Best rank ever
#486
1933
Peak year
1933
133 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,097
Count in 2025
23

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,054
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,534
Best rank ever
#4,656
1932
Peak year
2019
14 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
99
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Franklyn

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

FrancesFrancescoFrancoisFransiscoFrazierFrancoFrankyBrooklynLlewellynFrankieFranzFranklinFrantzFransicoMerlynBraelynFrancisoFranciscoFraserEvelynJaylynJaelynBraylynFranko

Names with a curve like Franklyn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Franklyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RaymonMahlonMargaritoRegisGilesGlendonHiltonWilliamsDeltonRichmondFarrisStanton

Sibling names for Franklyn

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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