girls:
764 births since 1914
#4952 (13th percentile)
boys:
140k births since 1880
#239 (95th percentile)
overall:
140.7k births since 1880
#530 (93rd percentile)
The name Franklin is the #530 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 140,722 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #239 (94.8% percentile) for all time with 139,958 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,952 (13.3% percentile) for all time with 764 births since 1914.
Franklin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls).
The name Franklin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Franklin reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 93.8% percentile (ranked #33) with 5,257 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 5,257 births per million (ranked 93.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Franklin ranks #379 for boys (58.5% percentile) with 424 births per million, which is 8.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Franklin reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #554) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 23 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Franklin ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 14.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Franklin".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Franklin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.5% confident that Franklin is pronounced as FRANGK-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FRAN-klihn, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like F R AE1 N G K L IH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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