Frañcesco
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Frañcesco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Medieval Latin Franciscus, derived from Francia, ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”).
- ITItaly≈1 in 92(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.4K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 92 (inferred from the name graph)
≈680,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Francesco in IT Italy, US United States, FR France and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Medieval LatinFranciscus(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*frankô“javelin”(measured from records)
From Medieval Latin Franciscus, derived from Francia, ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”).
Sources 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frañcesco counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #2 | ≈680,000 est. | ≈1 in 92 | 4.2K | Francesco | 314 |
| CN China | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Francesco | 23 |
| US United States | — | 10,482 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Francesco | 379 |
| FR France | #966 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 3K | Francesco | 285 |
| CH Switzerland | #206 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Francesco | 125 |
| BE Belgium | #354 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Francesco | 106 |
| MD Moldova | — | 343 | 1 in 9.8K | 343 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Frañcesco mean, and where does it come from?
- From Medieval Latin Franciscus, derived from Francia, ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Frañcesco have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 676 thousand people named Frañcesco in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled francesco.
- How common is the name Frañcesco?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,482 people named Frañcesco in 2020, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Frañcesco compared with other names?
- In Italy, Frañcesco is the 2nd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fra%C3%B1cescoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Frañcesco” — the 2nd most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.