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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Franklin.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1914

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 85 recorded years as a table

Franklin, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1914	7
1917	6
1918	4
1919	9
1920	6
1921	7
1922	8
1923	5
1924	4
1925	6
1926	6
1927	11
1928	10
1929	10
1930	8
1932	8
1933	24
1934	16
1935	16
1936	18
1937	16
1938	14
1939	10
1940	10
1941	10
1942	7
1943	7
1944	4
1945	8
1946	8
1947	6
1948	3
1949	4
1950	5
1951	4
1952	4
1953	3
1954	4
1955	3
1956	6
1957	6
1958	4
1959	4
1960	5
1961	3
1962	3
1963	6
1964	6
1965	6
1966	7
1967	5
1968	8
1969	4
1970	4
1972	6
1973	7
1974	3
1975	3
1976	5
1977	8
1978	7
1979	3
1980	7
1982	5
1984	5
1985	5
1986	5
1987	5
1988	5
1989	4
1990	5
1992	3
1993	3
1994	3
2004	3
2011	3
2014	3
2017	4
2018	5
2019	7
2020	5
2021	4
2022	6
2023	4
2024	8

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Franklin isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2024: 13
Rank in 2024: #7,967
How rare: 1 in 124,630 girls
Since 1914: 778

Franklin was last recorded in 2024. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1933, at 24 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Franklin doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.