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Frans

Boys' name

French(man), through François

Frans has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1934, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Frans, 2018

1 in 586,000

Frans over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Frans: meaning, origin, and history

French(man), through François

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Frans means

Frans belongs to the name family reached through Frans → François → Francis → Francis. Its meaning is “French(man)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Frans is used in Danish, Dutch, Faroese, Finnish, Icelandic, Indonesian, Norwegian and Swedish.

Frans comes through German Franz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Francis and François.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Frans is pronounced /frɑns/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 150 boys were recorded with the name Frans between 1915 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1934; its best national rank was #2,823 in 1934.

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 Frans?

Frans had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 303,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Frans 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Frans. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Franss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Frans was born before 1965 — so the typical Frans is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
96
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1960s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Frans 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 1934 (8)
Years since peak
91
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,823
1934

Spellings of Frans

Frans is not the most common spelling — Frank is, with 65.2% against Frans's 0.01%.

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.

Frans around the world

Where Frans 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.

  • France
    1916–2006
    #5,097
    in 2006
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #192
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1964–1964
    #557
    in 1964

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Frans by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,823
1934
Peak year
1934
8 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
150
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Frans

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

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Sibling names for Frans

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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