Franz
Franz is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 833rd, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 196359 births
- Best rank
- #833in 1889
- Since 1889
- 2,846people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,846 boys have been named Franz in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 59 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1960s alone account for 16%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Franz | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 18 | |
| 1900s | 17 | |
| 1910s | 159 | |
| 1920s | 151 | |
| 1930s | 229 | |
| 1940s | 243 | |
| 1950s | 321 | |
| 1960s | 445 | |
| 1970s | 328 | |
| 1980s | 299 | |
| 1990s | 235 | |
| 2000s | 179 | |
| 2010s | 148 | |
| 2020s | 67 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Franz was the 988th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1963 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Franz
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Byronpeak 1964
- Karlpeak 1960
- Sheltonpeak 1972
- Vancepeak 1969
- Carltonpeak 1957
- Curtispeak 1962
- Nielspeak 1957
- Philippeak 1953
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.