How Many People Are Named Franklin?
people named Franklin are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 4,552 people in the US has this name
Based on 142,506 babies named Franklin in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
5,387 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From an English surname which was derived from Middle English frankelin "freeman". A famous bearer of the surname was Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), an American statesman, inventor, scientist and philosopher. The name has commonly been given in his honour in the United States. It also received a boost during the term of American president Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Franklin in English. Counting Franklin and these spellings together, about 78,383 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Franklin, 0.7% were girls and 99.4% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Franklin alive today is about 49 years old, and 41% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 29 and 70 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Franklin first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1933, to 5,387 babies. In 2025, 909 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Franklin never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #33, in 1933, and it was in the top 100 in 9 years between 1932 and 1941. In 2025 it ranked #359.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #359 |
| Best rank | #33 (1933) |
| Years in the top 100 | 9 (1932 to 1941) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #70 in the 1930s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Franklin alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Franklin were born in California than in any other state: about 5,446 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Franklin was given 2.7 times as often in West Virginia, 2.3 times in South Carolina and 1.9 times in Maryland.
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