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Franz

#5,457 in 2025Boys' name

Frankish, through Frances

Franz has been given to 2,864 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #5,457 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Franz, 2025

1 in 195,000

Franz over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Franz: meaning, origin, and history

Frankish, through Frances

Latin

What Franz means

Franz belongs to the name family reached through Franz → Frances. Its meaning is “Frankish”.

Origin, language, and formation

Franz is used in English, East Central German and German. Its origins include Latin.

Franz comes through German Franz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frances, Franziska, Francis and Franziskus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Franz is pronounced /fʁant͡s/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,864 boys were recorded with the name Franz between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1963; its best national rank was #833 in 1889.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,069 in 2020 to #5,457 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,817 in 2015 to #5,457 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 Franz?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,457
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Franz 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Franz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Franzs were born

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

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
15.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,040
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (446).

Is Franz 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
+51
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+612
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+360
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.3%
Peak was 1963 (60)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#833
1889

Spellings of Franz

Franz is not the most common spelling — Frank is, with 83.5% against Franz's 0.26%.

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 Franz is used

Across 1910–2025, Franz was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 206,843 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Minnesota1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Franz has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Franz around the world

Where Franz 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
    2004–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1976–1976
    #288
    in 1976
  • France
    1902–2025
    #4,808
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Franz

People whose public names include Franz, 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.

Franz in other languages

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

FranFrankFransFerencFranckFrancoFrankoFrantzFrancisFrancescFranciscFranklinFrancescoFranciscoFranciscusFranciszekFañchFrenzFränkFrantsFranzlFrañsezFrançoisFragiskos

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

Franz by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,457
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 612
Best rank ever
#833
1889
Peak year
1963
60 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,864
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Franz

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

FrankyFrantzFrazierFrancoFrancesFraserFrancoisFranFrankoFranklynFransiscoFrandyFranceFrancescoFrankieFransFransicoFrasierFranckChanzHanzFrazerFrancisoFranki

Names with a curve like Franz

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

NilsRanceDoranKennardVinsonAlphonzoCandidoModestoPrentissElleryJacqueAnselmo

Sibling names for Franz

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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