Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Frances

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Frances
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 94.9% from peak

Peak era

1918

Peak rank proxy

16,131

Current vitality

Fragile

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19182024

Peak year

1918

Decline from peak

94.9%

2024

821

All-time

594,729

Frances once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1918, when 16,131 girls were named Frances.

In 2024, only 821 girls were given the name.

Down 94.9% from its peak.

All told, about 594,729 Americans have been named Frances and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreUncommon

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 94.9% from peak

191816,131 girls named Frances

2024821 girls named Frances

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