Francine
About 36,481 American babies have been named Francine since 1900, most of them around 1951. In 2025 it ranked 1,844th. About 27,000 Francines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Francine boys named Francine
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 36,481
- Estimated living today
- 27,000
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1951
- Best rank
- 227th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,844th
- First recorded
- 1900
- Girls / boys
- 36,470 / 11
How old the living Francines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 36,481 babies given the name since 1900, about 27,000 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 14,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Francines
- Francine Niyonsaba (born 1993)Burundian distance runner
- Francine Jordi (born 1977)Swiss singer and composer
- Francine York (1936–2017)American actress, showgirl
- Francine Prose (born 1947)American writer
- Francine Houben (born 1955)Dutch architect
- Francine Shapiro (1948–2019)American psychologist
- Francine Rivers (born 1947)American writer
- Francine Zouga (born 1987)Cameroonian footballer
People named Francine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Francine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Francine is most concentrated in Hawaii (4.1×), New York (3.7×), the District of Columbia (2.9×), New Jersey (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1951
The most popular girls’ names the year Francine peaked:
Francine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Francine +1 spelling | 92,765 | 40th |
| England and Wales girls | Francine | 222 | 1,074th |
| Scotland girls | Francine | 22 | 389th |
| Ireland girls | Francine | 9 | 522nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Francine: rank by region
In 2023, Francine was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Francine | 8 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Francine among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Francine | 788 | 2,619 |
| the Netherlands boys | Francine | — | 37 |
| Finland girls | Francine | 11 | 31 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Francine against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.