Given name · also Latin
Francesc
“frenchman”
In Catalan use, Francesc shares an earlier linguistic root with Francesco. One interpretation is “frenchman.”
Original ItalianFrancesco
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Catalan use, Francesc shares an earlier linguistic root with Francesco. One interpretation is “frenchman.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Francesc comes from Latin, and ultimately from Italian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Catalan usage, Francesc is a diminutive of FRANCUS.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Francesc through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 29
- 10 boys · 19 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Francesc’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Francesc has a diminutive in CESC. In Catalan usage, Francesc has a feminine form in Francesca. In Catalan usage, Francesc has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Francisco.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Francesc has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Francesc comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 28
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Francescosource · Italian
- Franciscussource · Latin
- FranciscoSpanish
- Francescafeminine form · Catalan
- FrancisEnglish
- Franklinequivalent
- Frankequivalent
- Francoequivalent
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- FranzGerman
- Frantzequivalent
- Frankoequivalent
- FranciszekPolish
- Ferencequivalent
- Franciscequivalent
- Fransequivalent
- Franckequivalent
- Františekequivalent
- Fañchequivalent
- ΦραγκίσκοςGreek
- Xescequivalent
- Francésequivalent
- Fränkequivalent
- Francescuequivalent
- Fragiskosequivalent
- Quicoequivalent
- Frañsezequivalent
- Françoisequivalent
- FranziskusGerman
People named Francesc
- Cesc FàbregasSpanish professional footballer player and managerborn 1987
- Tito VilanovaSpanish footballer and manager (1968-2014)
- Francesc MaciàPresident of Generalitat de Catalunya (1931-33)1859–1933
- Francis BorgiaGrandee of Spain and Jesuit priest (1510–1572)
- Francesc CambóSpanish politician (1876-1947)
- Francesc Pi i MargallSpanish politician (1824–1901)
- Francesc ArnauSpanish footballer (1975-2021)
- Francesc EiximenisCatalan philosopher, titular Patriarch of Jerusalem, Palestine, and Bishop of Elne1330–1409
- RodriSpanish footballer (1934–2022)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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Frasca
“branch”
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