Francine

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Francine: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Francine: Recorded since 1978, it reached #492 in 1988, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
47years from first to last
#492highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1296
1997	#1074
1998	#1823
1999	#1393
2000	#2167
2001	#1728
2002	#2105
2003	#2727
2004	#2278
2005	#1796
2006	#2137
2007	#2627
2008	#3397
2009	#2759
2010	#2843
2011	#3549
2013	#2176
2014	#4003
2015	#2945
2016	#2367
2017	#4763
2018	#3985
2019	#4001
2021	#3519
2022	#3970
2023	#4709
2024	#3695

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 3 of the 32 years from 1978 to 2009.

In 2009: #893 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2759 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1978–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1978
First recorded at #522 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1978 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1978–2009
Highest recorded position: #492 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1988 (recorded 1978–2009).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Francine appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 27 ranked years and 222 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1978.

Francine across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Francine's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#522 (1978)	#492 (1988)	#893 (2009)	3 of 32	9 (1978–2009)	3 (1978)
England and Wales · Girls	#1296 (1996)	#1074 (1997)	#3695 (2024)	27 of 29	222 (1996–2024)	18 (1997)

Francine by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Francine in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	54	4 of 10	14
2000sbusiest	83	10 of 10	8
2010s	64	9 of 10	7
2020s	21	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Francine appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1978 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #492 in Republic of Ireland in 1988.

Francine's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3519	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1074	18	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1296	14	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1978 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #492, first reached in 1988.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 18 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 18 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Francesco · #258, 31y
Francie · #301, 18y
Francis · #16, 73y
Francisca · #1934, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Eugenia · #492, 26y
Leana · #492, 30y
Adriano · #493, 27y
Ilya · #493, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Leana · #492, 30y
Dominica · #490, 22y
Emiliana · #490, 17y
Ashleen · #488, 24y

Francine was ranked #492 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1988. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Francine and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Francine without appearing here.

Francine moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1728 and #3998.
Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4001 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3519 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Francine

Diane Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2367 and #3609 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2201.
Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2367 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2201.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2176 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #1628.
Fiadh Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2367 and #2757 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2502.

Moved the opposite way to Francine

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Francine went from #1296 to #3695 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Francine went from #1296 to #3695 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Francine went from #1296 to #3695 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Francine went from #1296 to #3695 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Francine

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Francine went from #1296 to #3695 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Francine went from #1296 to #3695 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Francine went from #1296 to #3695 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Francine went from #1296 to #3695 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1978 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #492 in Republic of Ireland in 1988. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Francine

Francine at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Francine across 2 official records

Francine by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Francine appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Francine at a glance

Francine across 2 official records

Francine by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Francine appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Francine

Francine and the names beside it

Francine moved ahead of

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