Frances
101
Babies in 2024
+20%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 274
+6%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Frances
Frances peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (274 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 101 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Frances reached its peak in 1996, when 274 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #161 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 101 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,417 girls have been officially registered with the name Frances in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,158 girls were registered with the name, starting from 84 in 2014 and ending at 101 in 2024.