Franky

maleStatistical record

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

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

Franky: Recorded since 1996, it reached #489 in 2014, and it stood at #1,199 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#489highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2013

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#4739

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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #770 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1018 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #489 among boys in England and Wales, in 2014 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1199 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Franky appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 931 births with the name.

Franky 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.

Franky'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
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#489 (2014)	#1199 (2024)	26 of 29	931 (1996–2024)	80 (2014)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#755 (2021)	#755 (2021)	#770 (2023)	2 of 3	6 (2021–2023)	3 (2021)

Franky by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Franky in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	2 of 10	6
2000s	173	9 of 10	19
2010sbusiest	547	10 of 10	55
2020s	200	5 of 10	40

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 55 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births rose by 25, from 55 to 80.

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

Franky 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #489 in England and Wales in 2014.

Franky'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	male	#1199	23	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1018	29	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#688	49	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#719	48	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#668	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#694	48	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#580	64	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#701	50	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#647	54	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#597	62	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#489	80	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#621	55	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#704	47	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#662	49	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#774	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#848	33	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#775	37	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#952	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#939	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1135	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1347	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1425	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1454	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	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 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #489, first reached in 2014.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 80 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 25 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.

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Frans · #193, 26y
Frantisek · #2954, 12y

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.

Aishat · #490, 25y
Ashleen · #488, 24y
Dominica · #490, 22y
Emrys · #490, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Jarvis · #489, 29y
Kashif · #489, 25y
Aishat · #490, 25y
Emrys · #490, 26y

Franky was ranked #489 in England and Wales · Boys in 2014. 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.

Franky 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 Franky without appearing here.

Franky moved ahead of

Willow Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2863 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1135 and #3849.
Henrik Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2470 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1347 and #3651.
Jade Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2470 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1347 and #3651.
Malin Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2189 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1347 and #3651.

Moved ahead of Franky

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1425 and #2142 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1799 and #848.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1018 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1199 and #1132.
Kasper Compare
In 2014 they stood at #489 and #527 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #597 and #557.
Cooper Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1454 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1425 and #1425.

Moved the opposite way to Franky

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Franky went from #2863 to #1199 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Franky went from #2863 to #1199 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Franky went from #2863 to #1199 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Franky went from #2863 to #1199 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Franky

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Franky went from #2863 to #1199 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Franky went from #2863 to #1199 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Franky went from #2863 to #1199 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Franky went from #2863 to #1199 and Archie from #192 to #10.

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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #489 in England and Wales in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Franky

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Franky across 2 official records

Franky by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Franky across 2 official records

Franky by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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