Cold-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet

A cold-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C:

• 0.005% or more and 0.05% or less, Si:
• 0.02% or more and 0.75% or less, Mn:
• 0.1% or more and 1.0% or less, P:
• 0.04% or less, S:
• 0.01% or less, Al:
• 0.001% or more and 0.10% or less, N:
• 0.005% or more and 0.06% or less, Cr:
• 16.0% or more and 18.0% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities and a metallographic structure including a ferrite phase, wherein the average grain diameter of a ferrite phase is 10 μm or less, wherein the proportion of ferrite grains having a grain diameter of 10 μm or more and less than 40 μm to the whole metallographic structure is 60% or more in terms of area ratio, and wherein the proportion of ferrite grains having a grain diameter of less than 5 μm to the whole metallographic structure is less than 20% in terms of area ratio.