Frances Factsheet

Meaning
Feminine form of Francis - late Latin via English - 'a Frenchman, a Frank'

England and Wales statistics
Anglo-Saxon record: no entries
13th century: no entries
Earliest birth record: Frances Stewell (1538)
1550-1690: High #15 (1680); Low - no data (1550-60); mode -  #18 (1570, 1610-60, 1690)
1840-1905: High #19 (1840); Low #38 (1900); decline over period
1914-1994: High #37 (1914); Low no data (1974-94); decline over period
2004: #340
2008: #500
2011: #552 (75 births)

US statistics
1880-2011: High: #8 (1918); Low: #826 (2007); rise and then gradual fall
2011: #789 (341 births)