Name meaning & stats
Franklin
Franklin means “free landholder”. 92,079 US babies since 1940, peak 1940.
What it means
“free landholder”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1940
92,079 US babies were named Franklin between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Franklin (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Franklin is the main spelling
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1940)