Given name
Francisc
Francisc is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Romanian.
Original LatinFranciscus
Meaning & origin
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
Francisc through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 8
- 8 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 8 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 8 in 1989. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 149 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Francisc’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Francisc has a conventional equivalent in the English form Francis. In Romanian usage, Francisc has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Franciszek. In Romanian usage, Francisc was borrowed from the Latin form Franciscus.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Francisc has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Francisc comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 22
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Francisc
- Francisc VaștagRomanian boxerborn 1968
- Francisc HorvathOlympic wrestlerborn 1928
- Francisc ȘiratoRomanian artist (1877-1953)
- Francisc SpielmannHungarian association football player (1916-1974)
- Francisc Zavodaassociation football player (1927-2011)
- Francisc MészárosRomanian association football player (1919-1977)
- Francisc BallaRomanian wrestler (1932–2023)
- Francisc MunteanuRomanian film director and screenwriter (1924–1993)
- Francisc RainerRomanian pathologist, physiologist and anthropologist1874–1944
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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