Frances



Gender:
Origin: German, Latin
768 famous people named Frances found on Wikipedia.
590042 female, 4981 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 445-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 8-th in year 1918
Used in: English

Meanings

A female given name: derived from Francis.


Frances is a given name, the feminine version of Francis.


Fem. proper name, from French, from Old French Franceise (Modern French Françoise), fem. of Franceis (see Francis).


Feminine form of Francis: from France, frenchman, free man.

Famous People: 768 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Frances Bean Cobain 1992 American artist
2 Frances McDormand 1957 American actress
3 Frances Conroy 1953 American actress
4 Frances Fisher 1952 English-born American actress
5 Frances Bavier 1902 American stage and television actress
6 Frances de la Tour 1944 British actress
7 Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston 1864 First Lady of the United States
8 Frances Scott Fitzgerald 1921 American journalist
9 Frances Farmer 1913 Actress
10 Frances Shand Kydd 1936 British viscountess
11 Frances Ford Seymour 1908 American socialite
12 Frances Oldham Kelsey 1914 Canadian-American pharmacologist who refused to authorize thalidomide for market in the U.S.
13 Frances Tomelty 1948 Northern Irish actress
14 Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett 1849 English-American childrens' playwright and author
15 Frances Tiafoe 1998 American tennis player
16 Frances Barber 1958 British actress
17 Frances Perkins 1882 American politician
18 Frances Bay 1919 Actress
19 Frances Sternhagen 1930 American actress
20 Frances Cress Welsing 1935 American psychiatrist
21 Frances Dee 1909 American actress
22 Frances Osborne 1969 British writer
23 Frances Newton 1965 American murderer
24 Frances Willard 1839 American suffragist
25 Frances Xavier Cabrini 1850 Italian-American saint
26 Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk 1517 English duchess
27 Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza 1944 British academic, life peer
28 Frances Bergen 1922 Actress, model
29 Frances Townsend 1961 American politician
30 Frances Langford 1913 Singer, actress
31 Frances Mayes 1940 American university professor and writer
32 Frances Burney 1752 English writer
33 Frances Fitzgerald 1950 Irish politician
34 Frances Lee McCain 1944 American actress
35 Frances Ruffelle 1965 English theatre actress and singer
36 Frances 1993 British singer-songwriter
37 Frances Quinn
38 Frances Reid 1914 American actress
39 Frances Lefebure Belgian actress
40 Frances Rivera 1970 American television journalist
41 Cornelia Frances 1941 Australian actress
42 Frances Harper 1825 American writer
43 Frances Lear 1923 American activist and magazine publisher
44 Frances O'Connor 1914 American actress
45 Frances of Rome 1384 Italian mystic and religious foundress
46 Frances Howard 1903 American actress
47 Frances Sargent Osgood 1811 American poet
48 Frances Yates 1899 British writer, historian
49 Frances Marion 1888 Writer, Screenwriter
50 Frances McKee 1966 British singer
51 Frances E. Allen 1932 American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers
52 Frances Wright 1795 American activist
53 Frances Walsingham 1567 English countess
54 Frances Black 1960 Irish singer
55 Frances FitzGerald 1940 American journalist and author
56 Frances Callier 1969 American actress/comedian
57 Frances Ellen Work 1857 American socialite
58 Frances Fox Piven 1932 American sociologist
59 Frances Ondiviela 1965 Spanish actress
60 Frances Gifford 1920 American actress
61 Frances Benjamin Johnston 1864 American photojournalist
62 Allen Frances 1942 American psychiatrist who chaired the task force that produced the DSM-IV and critiqued the DSM-5
63 Frances Nelson 1761 Wife of Horatio Nelson
64 Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey 1753 Mistress of George IV
65 Frances O'Grady 1959 British trade unionist; General Secretary of the TUC
66 Frances Ridley Havergal 1836 British poet and hymn-writer
67 Frances Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne 1832 Great-grandmother of Elizabeth II
68 Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset 1590 Countess of Somerset
69 Frances White 1938 British actress
70 Frances Grey 1970 Actress
71 Frances Tophill
72 Frances Hardinge 1973 British children's writer
73 Frances Cuka 1936 British actress
74 Frances Yip 1947 Hong Kong actress
75 Myra Frances 1943 British actress
76 Frances Fuller 1907 American actress
77 Frances Hashimoto 1943 Businessperson
78 Frances Heflin 1920 American actress
79 Frances Densmore 1867 American anthropologist
80 Frances Arnold 1956 An internationally recognized American scientist and engineer
81 Frances Gershwin 1906 American artist
82 Frances Faye 1912 American singer
83 Frances Moore Lappé 1944 Activist against world hunger
84 Frances Rafferty 1922 American actress (1922-2004)
85 Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond 1647 Prominent member of the Court of the Restoration
86 Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough 1822 British duchess
87 Frances Parkinson Keyes 1885 Novelist, memoirist, biographer
88 Frances Drake 1912 American actress
89 Frances Power Cobbe 1822 (1822–1904) Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading suffragette
90 Frances Goodrich 1890 American writer
91 Frances Slocum 1773 American kidnap victim
92 Frances Kazan Writer
93 Frances Stonor Saunders 1966 British historian
94 Frances Glessner Lee 1878 Sponsor of medical examiner training in USA, creator of "nutshell" crime-scene dioramas.
95 Frances Farenthold 1926 Texas politician and human rights activisit
96 Frances Dodge 1914 American businessman
97 Frances Foster 1924 Actress
98 Frances Cornford 1886 English poet
99 Frances Parthenope Verney 1819 English writer and journalist
100 Frances Spence 1922 American physicist and computer scientist
101 Frances Blogg 1869
102 Frances Houghton 1980 British rower
103 Frances Baard 1909 South African trade unionist and politician
104 Frances Trollope 1780 English writer
105 Frances Wisebart Jacobs 1843 American philanthropist
106 Frances Lloyd George, Countess Lloyd-George 1888
107 Frances Hesselbein American businesswoman
108 Frances MacDonald 1873 Painter from the UK (1873–1921)
109 Frances Stark 1967 American artist
110 Frances Jones 1710 American colonial
111 Frances Payne Bingham Bolton 1885 American politician
112 Frances Cairncross 1944 British journalist and economist
113 Frances Lydia Alice Knorr 1868 Australian murderer
114 Frances Dade 1910 American actress
115 Frances Adeline "Fanny" Seward 1844 Daughter of an American politician
116 Frances Partridge 1900 British writer
117 Frances Alda 1879 New Zealand-born Australian operatic soprano
118 Frances Adeline Seward 1805 First Lady of New York
119 Frances Hodgkins 1869 New Zealand artist
120 Frances Kirwan 1959 British mathematician
121 Frances Stewart 1940 British economist
122 Frances Wood 1948 English historian and sinologist
123 Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond 1578 British duchess
124 Frances Dana Barker Gage 1808 American writer
125 Frances Adamson 1961 Australian diplomat
126 Frances Brooke 1724 English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator
127 Frances Anne Hopkins 1838 English artist
128 Frances Yao Chinese-born American computer scientist
129 Frances Day 1908 American actress
130 Frances Horwich 1907 American television executive
131 Frances Polidori 1800 Wife of Gabriele Rossetti
132 Frances Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry 1800 British noble
133 Frances Donovan
134 Frances Buss 1827 Educator and feminist
135 Frances Kamm American philosopher
136 Frances Bemis 1898 American murder victim
137 Frances Lankin 1954 Canadian politician
138 Frances Marie Burke 1922 American model
139 Frances Ames 1920 South African physician
140 Frances Fyfield 1948 Pseudonym of Frances Hegarty, a lawyer and crime-writer
141 Frances Ann Stewart 1840 Social activist
142 Frances Beinecke American activist
143 Frances Spalding 1950 British art historian
144 Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey 1516 English countess
145 Frances C. Wilson U.S. Marine Corps general
146 Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon 1617 English noble
147 Frances Lasker Brody 1916 American philanthropist
148 Frances Apsley 1653 Maid of honour
149 Frances Crowe 1919 American peace activist
150 Frances Hyland 1927 Canadian actress
151 Frances Ashcroft 1952 British geneticist and physiologist
152 Frances Edmonds Writer
153 Frances Abington 1737 Stage actor
154 Frances D. Fergusson 1944 American art historian
155 Frances Nunziata Canadian politician
156 Frances Hargreaves 1954 South African actress
157 Frances Jennings Casement 1840 Suffragette
158 Frances Morris 1958 British curator
159 Frances Sheridan 1724 British writer
160 Frances M. Beal 1940 American activist
161 Frances Lee 1906 Actress and Ziegfeld Girl
162 Frances Clalin Union Army soldier; Female wartime crossdresser
163 Frances Margaret Taylor 1832 British writer
164 Frances Itani 1942 Canadian fiction writer, poet and essayist
165 Frances Kidder British murderer
166 Frances Kissling 1943 American activist
167 Frances Negrón-Muntaner 1966 Puerto Rican filmmaker
168 Frances Karttunen 1942 American academic
169 Frances Balfour 1858 British aristocrat and suffragist
170 Frances Bagenal 1954 Scientist
171 Frances Robinson 1916 American actress
172 Frances Browne 1816 Irish writer
173 Frances Kellor 1873 American sociologist
174 Frances Eleanor Trollope 1835 English novelist
175 Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn 1820 British viscountess
176 Frances Lincoln 1945 British publisher
177 Frances Shea-Buckley 1929 United States admiral
178 Frances Young 1939 English theological writer and Methodist minister
179 Frances E. Williams 1908 Activist
180 Frances Patterson 1954 British judge
181 Frances Winfield American writer
182 Frances Parker 1875 British suffragette
183 Frances Wilson 1964 British literary critic
184 Dovi Frances 1978 International financier
185 Frances Dafoe 1929 Canadian figure skater
186 Frances Nero 1943 American musician
187 Frances M. Vega 1983 United States Army soldier
188 Frances Brundage 1854 American artist
189 Frances Curran 1961 British politician
190 Frances Yeend 1913 American singer
191 Frances Silva 1992 Association football player
192 Frances Erskine Inglis, 1st Marquise of Calderón de la Barca 1804 Spanish Marquise
193 Emily Frances 1970 American television journalist
194 Frances McNeil
195 Frances Smith Strickland 1941 Psychologist
196 Frances Hook 1847
197 Frances Radclyffe, Countess of Sussex 1531 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
198 Frances Raines 1962 American actress
199 Frances Latham 1609 Ancestor of many Rhode Island governors and deputy governors
200 Frances Ritchie Anglican nun; British nurse and humanitarian