Franklin

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: English

Meaning

Franklin is a masculine English given name. It is of English coming from the medieval English Frankeleyn, coming from the Anglo-Norman fraunclein. Its meaning is landowner of free but not noble origin.

From Wikipedia

Franklin first appears in the data in 1991 and has been recorded in 34 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2021 with 50 babies (rank #570 that year). In 2024 it was given to 47 boys (rank #588). The name has been rising over the last five years.

Numerology of Franklin

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Franklin yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

832
Total babies (all years)
34
Years in the data
50
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
199131#548
199224#672
199316#870
199415#860
199519#831
199624#704
199720#776
199816#911
199924#701
200010#1,282
200121#796
200216#967
200311#1,275
20048#1,702
200518#993
200612#1,377
200716#1,150
200811#1,562
200916#1,228
201015#1,279
201118#1,155
201221#1,014
201318#1,140
201429#818
201534#740
201621#1,060
201739#669
201839#669
201933#754
202046#576
202150#570
202249#560
202345#599
202447#588