Given name & surname
Franjo
Franjo is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.
Original LatinFranciscus
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Slovenian usage, Franjo developed from the Latin form Franciscus.
Franjo’s family of names
In Slovenian usage, Franjo shares an earlier linguistic root with Fran. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Franjo has a conventional equivalent in the English form Francis. In Slovenian usage, Franjo shares an earlier linguistic root with Franci.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Franjo has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Franjo comes from · 1 name
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 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Franjo
- Franjo TuđmanCroatian politician, soldier, president and historian (1922–1999)
- Franjo von AllmenSwiss alpine skierborn 2001
- Franjo KuharićArchbishop of Zagreb and cardinal. (1919–2002)
- Franjo RačkiCroatian historian, politician and writer (1828-1894)
- Franjo MihalićYugoslav long-distance runner1920–2015
- Franjo ŠeperCroatian Roman Catholic cardinal (1905–1981)
- Franjo GregurićCroatian politicianborn 1939
- Franjo KomaricaBosnian Catholic bishop in paceborn 1946
- Franjo WölflYugoslavian footballer (1918–1987)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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