Recorded 1912–2025 · United States
Francois was most popular in 1992, when 43 American babies were given the name — ranking #4,526 that year. In 2025 it ranked #10,985, with 18 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,823 people named Francois.
Francois first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1912, which makes it about 113 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 108 of the 114 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,823 American births named Francois between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,455 are estimated to be alive today.
18 American babies were named Francois in 2025, ranking #10,985 that year.
Francois is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 13 births a year across 2021–2025 against 15 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Francois is a boy’s name — 0.3% of the 1,823 Americans given it were girls and 99.7% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 1,455 Americans named Francois are alive today — 80% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 39 years old, and half are between 25 and 55. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org