# Frans (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/frans/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 150 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 150 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 5 | 3,897 |
| 1959 | 7 | 3,390 |
| 1961 | 6 | 3,780 |
| 1965 | 8 | 3,066 |
| 1966 | 6 | 3,662 |
| 1968 | 5 | 4,333 |
| 1972 | 7 | 4,133 |
| 1974 | 8 | 3,950 |
| 1975 | 5 | 5,758 |
| 1983 | 6 | 5,713 |
| 1987 | 7 | 5,690 |
| 1990 | 7 | 6,663 |
| 2003 | 7 | 8,970 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,452 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,220 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Frans

- Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer (1888–1964)
- Frans Hals, Dutch painter (1580–1666)
- Frans de Waal, Dutch primatologist and ethologist (1948–2024)
- Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (1579–1657)
- Frans Floris (I), Flemish painter (1519–1570)
- Frans Nielsen, Danish ice hockey player
- Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter (1635–1681)
- Frans Brüggen, Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist (1934–2014)
- Frans van der Lugt, Dutch Jesuit (1938-2014)
- Frans Pourbus the Younger, Flemish painter (1569–1669)
- Frans De Haes, Belgian weightlifter
- Frans Thijssen, Dutch association football manager and former player

## 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.