How Many People Are Named Franklyn?
people named Franklyn are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 103,227 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,196 babies named Franklyn in Social Security records from 1885 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
133 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of FRANKLIN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Franklyn in English. Counting Franklyn 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 Franklyn, 2.9% were girls and 97.2% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Franklyn rose from 0% in the 1910s to 25.4% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Franklyn alive today is about 44 years old, and 37% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 24 and 65 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Franklyn first appears in the records in 1885 and was given most often in 1933, to 133 babies. In 2025, 34 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1885 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Franklyn has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #486, in 1933. In 2025 it ranked #4,440.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,440 |
| Best rank | #486 (1933) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #664 in the 1930s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Franklyn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Franklyn were born in New York than in any other state: about 853 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Franklyn was given 7.1 times as often in New York, 2.5 times in New Jersey and 1.6 times in Florida.
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