Francès
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Francès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In New Caledonia it is the 35th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old French Franceise, feminine form of Franceis, from Late Latin Franciscus (“Frankish”).
- USUnited States1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 10K
- GYGuyana1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
201,693 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Frances in US United States, NC New Caledonia and Francés in ES Spain.
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)- Old FrenchFranceise(measured from records)
- Late LatinFranciscus“Frankish”(measured from records)
From Old French Franceise, feminine form of Franceis, from Late Latin Franciscus (“Frankish”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Francès 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 201,693 | 1 in 1.6K | 200K | Frances | 176 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,120 | 1 in 189K | 1.1K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,022 | 1 in 10K | 1K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 113 | 1 in 443K | 7.2K | Francés | 17 |
| FI Finland | — | 101 | 1 in 55K | 272 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 71 | 1 in 11K | 71 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 62 | 1 in 95K | 62 | — | 1 |
| NC New Caledonia | #35 | — | — | — | Frances | 5 |
201,693 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Francès is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, French (pertaining to France, the French people, or the French language)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Walloon, French (language)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sita Murtb. 1946ESnot in their usual namefashion designer
- Léopoldo Francèsb. 1953FRFrench actor
- Elsa Francèsb. 1966FRFrench person
- Hervé Francèsb. 1967FRFrench ad man
- Estelle Francèsb. 1971FRFrench cultural manager
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Francès mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old French Franceise, feminine form of Franceis, from Late Latin Franciscus (“Frankish”). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Francès have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 202 thousand people named Francès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frances.
- Where is Francès most common?
- Francès is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Francès?
- In the United States, the national register counted 201,693 people named Francès in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Francès compared with other names?
- In New Caledonia, Francès is the 35th most common given name of 870 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/franc%C3%A8sThe 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, “Francès” — the 35th most common given name in New Caledonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.