girls:
64 births since 1927
#5652 (1st percentile)
boys:
3k births since 1925
#2289 (50th percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1925
#4905 (37th percentile)
The name Franky is the #4,905 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,067 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 36.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,289 (50.1% percentile) for all time with 3,003 births since 1925. For girls, it ranks #5,652 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 64 births since 1927.
Franky first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for boys and 1927 for girls). Birth data for Franky is available in 96 out of the 99 years between 1925 and 2023 (95 years for boys and 11 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Franky has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Franky reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 10.1% percentile (ranked #794) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 42 births per million (ranked 10.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Franky ranks #881 for boys (3.3% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 45.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Franky reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #942) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Franky".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Franky", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Frankie" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Frankie..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Franky. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.7% confident that Franky is pronounced as FRANGK-ee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FRAN-kee, at 24.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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