Given name & surname
Franciscus
“a man from France; one who is free”
Franciscus is a variant of Francis. One Latin interpretation is “a man from France; one who is free.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Franciscus is a variant of Francis. One Latin interpretation is “a man from France; one who is free.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Franciscus is a variant of Francis. An origin associated with Francis is Italian.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Franciscus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 5 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 1993. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 239 as a first name in 2020; 318 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Franciscus’s family of names
In German usage, Franciscus as a surname has a short form in Franz. In Latin usage, Franciscus has a later derivative in Francisco. Franciscus has a related form in Francis.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Franciscus has relatives in 20 languages.
21 related names in 20 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 37
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Franciscoderivative · French, ceb
- Franklinequivalent
- Frankequivalent
- Francoequivalent
- Francescoequivalent
- Franciscahas masculine form
- Francoisequivalent
- Frantzequivalent
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- FranciszekPolish
- Frankoderivative · Slovene
- Franciscborrowing · Romanian
- Francescborrowing · Catalan
- Fransderivative · Faroese, Dutch
- Franckequivalent
- Pacoequivalent
- Ferencequivalent
- Франьоderivative · rsk
- Фрањоderivative · Serbo-Croatian
- Ffransisderivative · Welsh
- Frantziskoderivative · Basque
- Phanchicôderivative · Vietnamese
- Françouaisderivative · nrf
- Φραγκίσκοςderivative · Greek
- FrançoisFrench
- Franjoderivative · Slovene, Serbo-Croatian
- Franciskoderivative · Esperanto
- Phanxicôderivative · Vietnamese
- Paquitoderivative · Spanish
- Francésequivalent
- Patxiequivalent
- Francescuequivalent
- Fragiskosequivalent
- Frañsezequivalent
- Fransiscusequivalent
- Františekequivalent
- Franchoequivalent
- Fañchequivalent
People named Franciscus
- Frans TimmermansDutch politician (born 1961)
- Franciscus DondersDutch ophthalmologist (1818-1889)
- Franciscus SylviusDutch physician and chemist of Leyden, Netherlands1614–1672
- Franciscus GomarusDutch theologian (1563-1641)
- Franciscus JuniusHuguenot theologian1545–1602
- Franciscus Juniusphilologist1591–1677
- Franciscus van den EndenFlemish Jesuit, Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer, philosopher and teacher of Baruch de Spinoza (1602-1674)
- Franciscus Kopong Kung21st-century Indonesian Catholic bishopborn 1950
- Frans HoekDutch association football player (born 1956)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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