Francesca
given name · Latin script
Meaning: forma feminina de Francesco
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/frant͡ʃeska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Francesca is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 198(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.4K
- USUnited States1 in 10K
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)
- Sources
- 454 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 198 (inferred from the name graph)
≈320,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma feminina de Francesco
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Francesca 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 | #353 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 198 | 996 | Francesca | 178 |
| US United States | — | 32,941 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Francesca | 454 |
| GB United Kingdom | #455 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 28 | Francesca | 307 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 2.1K | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Francesca | 169 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 46 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Francesca | 55 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Francesca 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 French, Forme italienne de Françoise, du latin Franciscus « franc, libre ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Libera
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Francesca da Riminib. 1259ITItalian noble woman
- Jane Wildeb. 1821IEnot in their usual nameIrish poet and writer, editor (1821–1896)
- Francesca Saverio Cabrinib. 1850USItalian-American Catholic nun, misionary and saint (1850-1917)
- Mitzi Gaynorb. 1931USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1931–2024)
- Francesca Annisb. 1945GBEnglish actress
- Romina Powerb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and actress (1951-)
- Francesca Schiavoneb. 1980ITItalian tennis player
- Bonnie Wrightb. 1991GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress and filmmaker
- Francesca Eastwoodb. 1993USAmerican actress
- Francesca Capaldib. 2004USAmerican actress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 89 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33K | #1,192 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 2.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 2.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 1.7K | #85 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 996 | #37 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 984 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 58 | #1,192 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 46 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 28 | #152 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 8 | #205 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 8 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Francesca mean, and where does it come from?
- forma feminina de Francesco Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- Is Francesca a male or female name?
- Francesca is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Francesca?
- In the etymology graph, Frances, Francisca and Fanny are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Francesca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 316 thousand people named Francesca in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled francesca.
- How do you pronounce Francesca?
- A machine transcription gives /frant͡ʃeska/ (IPA) for Italian.
- How common is the name Francesca?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,941 people named Francesca in 2020, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Francesca compared with other names?
- In Italy, Francesca is the 353rd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Francesca?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/francescaThe 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, “Francesca” — the 353rd most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.