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/fránt͡s/ · Slovene
01 / Meaning & origin
Franc is a masculine given name documented in Spanish, Finnish, Upper Sorbian and 1 other language.
No etymology is recorded in our sources for this spelling yet. The record exists because the name is documented in use; a meaning will be shown only once a cited source supports it.
02 / Across borders
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United States, 2013: 5 boys (rank 12136).
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1900–2025 Spelling: FRANC
Recorded category boys
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 | 428 | rounded |
| 1901 | 10 | 426 | rounded |
| 1902 | 10 | 391 | rounded |
| 1903 | 5 | 449 | rounded |
| 1904 | 10 | 417 | rounded |
| 1905 | 10 | 415 | rounded |
| 1906 | 20 | 301 | rounded |
| 1907 | 15 | 368 | rounded |
| 1908 | 15 | 325 | rounded |
| 1909 | 20 | 300 | rounded |
| 1910 | 15 | 349 | rounded |
| 1911 | 15 | 334 | rounded |
| 1912 | 20 | 327 | rounded |
| 1913 | 35 | 250 | rounded |
| 1914 | 20 | 300 | rounded |
| 1915 | 20 | 270 | rounded |
| 1916 | 15 | 266 | rounded |
| 1917 | 25 | 229 | rounded |
| 1918 | 10 | 364 | rounded |
| 1919 | 10 | 305 | rounded |
| 1920 | 30 | 251 | rounded |
| 1921 | 25 | 276 | rounded |
| 1922 | 25 | 260 | rounded |
| 1923 | 25 | 283 | rounded |
| 1924 | 20 | 324 | rounded |
| 1925 | 30 | 276 | rounded |
| 1926 | 25 | 327 | rounded |
| 1927 | 25 | 283 | rounded |
| 1928 | 30 | 266 | rounded |
| 1929 | 20 | 305 | rounded |
| 1930 | 25 | 300 | rounded |
| 1931 | 25 | 296 | rounded |
| 1932 | 20 | 316 | rounded |
| 1933 | 20 | 300 | rounded |
| 1934 | 30 | 244 | rounded |
| 1935 | 20 | 300 | rounded |
| 1936 | 35 | 232 | rounded |
| 1937 | 20 | 306 | rounded |
| 1938 | 15 | 348 | rounded |
| 1939 | 15 | 323 | rounded |
| 1940 | 15 | 335 | rounded |
| 1941 | 10 | 389 | rounded |
| 1942 | 10 | 392 | rounded |
| 1943 | 15 | 304 | rounded |
| 1944 | 15 | 311 | rounded |
| 1945 | 10 | 371 | rounded |
| 1946 | 25 | 274 | rounded |
| 1947 | 20 | 312 | rounded |
| 1948 | 15 | 415 | rounded |
| 1949 | 15 | 422 | rounded |
| 1950 | 10 | 570 | rounded |
| 1951 | 10 | 604 | rounded |
| 1952 | 15 | 452 | rounded |
| 1953 | 5 | 797 | rounded |
| 1954 | 10 | 567 | rounded |
| 1955 | 15 | 497 | rounded |
| 1956 | 25 | 369 | rounded |
| 1957 | 15 | 491 | rounded |
| 1958 | 15 | 474 | rounded |
| 1959 | 35 | 327 | rounded |
| 1960 | 20 | 452 | rounded |
| 1961 | 25 | 411 | rounded |
| 1962 | 20 | 478 | rounded |
| 1963 | 35 | 355 | rounded |
| 1964 | 50 | 304 | rounded |
| 1965 | 60 | 277 | rounded |
| 1966 | 20 | 518 | rounded |
| 1967 | 20 | 560 | rounded |
| 1968 | 25 | 468 | rounded |
| 1969 | 15 | 643 | rounded |
| 1970 | 15 | 684 | rounded |
| 1971 | 20 | 625 | rounded |
| 1972 | 20 | 655 | rounded |
| 1973 | 20 | 662 | rounded |
| 1974 | 10 | 1,089 | rounded |
| 1975 | 10 | 1,158 | rounded |
| 1976 | 10 | 927 | rounded |
| 1977 | 10 | 1,030 | rounded |
| 1978 | 10 | 1,076 | rounded |
| 1979 | 5 | 2,256 | rounded |
| 1980 | 5 | 2,183 | rounded |
| 1981 | 5 | 1,803 | rounded |
| 1982 | 5 | 1,684 | rounded |
| 1983 | 5 | 1,540 | rounded |
| 1984 | 5 | 3,003 | rounded |
| 1985 | 5 | 3,030 | rounded |
| 1986 | 5 | 1,623 | rounded |
| 1987 | 5 | 2,818 | rounded |
| 1988 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1989 | 5 | 3,115 | rounded |
| 1990 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1991 | 5 | 2,787 | rounded |
| 1992 | 5 | 2,802 | rounded |
| 1993 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1994 | 5 | 2,932 | rounded |
| 1995 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1996 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1997 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “FRANC” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Franc— “free”
Franc, or Franco, was the archbishop of Rouen who made terms with Rollo; but the name of real fame arose otherwise.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section IV (Frey) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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