Given name & surname · Greek
Φραγκίσκος
Φραγκίσκος (Fragkískos) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Greek.
GreekWritten in Greek script. In English: Francis.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Φραγκίσκος comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Greek usage, Φραγκίσκος developed from Franciscus.
Φραγκίσκος’s family of names
In Greek usage, Φραγκίσκος developed from the Latin form Franciscus. In Greek usage, Φραγκίσκος has a conventional equivalent in the English form Francis. In Greek usage, Φραγκίσκος has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Franciszek.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Φραγκίσκος has relatives in 27 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Φραγκίσκος comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 30
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Franciscusroot · Latin, Dutch
- FranciscoPortuguese, Spanish
- Franklinequivalent
- FrancisEnglish
- Frankequivalent
- Francoequivalent
- FrancescoItalian
- FranzGerman
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- Frantzequivalent
- Frankoequivalent
- FranciszekPolish
- Franckequivalent
- FransSwedish, Norwegian
- FranciscRomanian
- FerencHungarian
- FrancescCatalan
- Fañchequivalent
- FrançoisFrench
- Fränkequivalent
- FrantišekCzech, Slovak
- FrančišekSlovene
- FfransisWelsh
- PranciškusLithuanian
- FrancisksLatvian
- 弗朗西斯科Chinese
- FranciskoEsperanto
- FranziskusGerman
- FrañsezBreton
- فرانشيسكوArabic
- FranchoAragonese
People named Φραγκίσκος
- Fragiskos AlvertisGreek basketball player (born 1974)
- Frangiskos SourpisGreek footballerborn 1943
- Francisco LeontaritisGreek composer1518–1572
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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