Francs
given name · Latin script
Meaning: masculine plural of franc
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɹæŋks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Francs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 75K(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 323K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.8M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈89 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
masculine plural of franc
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Francs 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 | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | listed | Francs | 53 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Francs | 11 |
| LV Latvia | 25 | 1 in 75K | 26 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Francs | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Francs | 21 |
| CA Canada | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Francs | 6 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Francs | 1 |
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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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)
Francs 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 Danish, indefinite plural of franc
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Franz Stypmannb. 1612DEnot in their usual nameGerman judge
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 26 | #2,251 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 25 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Francs mean, and where does it come from?
- masculine plural of franc Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Francs?
- A machine transcription gives /fɹæŋks/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Francs a male or female name?
- Francs is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Francs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 89 people named Francs in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled francs.
- Where is Francs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Francs is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Francs?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 25 people named Francs, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/francsThe 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, “Francs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.