# Françoise (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/francoise/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 620 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 620 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 12, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 11,023 |
| 1983 | 12 | 5,562 |
| 1984 | 8 | 7,614 |
| 1985 | 6 | 9,695 |
| 1986 | 5 | 11,525 |
| 1987 | 10 | 6,963 |
| 1988 | 8 | 8,654 |
| 1989 | 7 | 10,052 |
| 1990 | 5 | 13,685 |
| 1991 | 11 | 7,581 |
| 1992 | 5 | 13,999 |
| 1993 | 6 | 12,294 |
| 2005 | 7 | 13,476 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,061 |
| 2023 | 5 | 15,980 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 | 3,262 |
| 2005 | 5 | 3,382 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |

## People named Françoise

- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
- Françoise Sagan, French writer (1935-2004)
- Françoise Hardy, French singer (1944–2024)
- Françoise Dorléac, French actress (1942–1967)
- Françoise Gilot, French painter, art critic, writer and beloved of Pablo Picasso (1921–2023)
- Françoise Mbango Etone, Cameroonian and French athletics competitor
- Françoise Giroud, French writer and politician (1916–2003)
- Françoise Dolto, French pediatrician & psychoanalyst (1908–1988)
- Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (1920–2005)
- Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, French businesswoman, billionaire
- Françoise Marie de Bourbon, French duchess, princess
- Françoise Arnoul, French actress (1931–2021)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.