Francesco
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Francesco is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. In Italian, recorded as a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Francesca, equivalent to English Francis.
- 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)
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)
a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Francesca, equivalent to English Francis
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Francesco is read(measured from records)
Francesco is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Italian60%
a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Francesca, equivalent to English Francis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Dal latino Franciscus, 'francese'; nome reso popolare da san Francesco d'Assisi, in uso in Italia dall'XI secolo.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
dal germanico Francisk, ‘franco, libero’
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
forma italiana de Franciscus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- German23%
Francesco Petrarca, italienischer Dichter und Humanist
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English9.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Francesco in English.
- Arabic6.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Francesco in Arabic.
- Spanish6.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Francesco in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Francesco 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Francesco is also recorded in one other lexicon, 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 François, du latin Franciscus « franc, libre ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Francesco Petrarcab. 1304ITItalian scholar and poet (1304-1374)
- Sixtus IVb. 1414ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1471 to 1484 (1414-1484)
- Pius IIIb. 1439ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 22 September to 18 October 1503
- Francesco Redib. 1626ITItalian entomologist and poet
- Clemens XIb. 1649ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
- Benedictus XIIIb. 1649ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1724 to 1730
- Francesco Filippinib. 1853ITItalian painter and theorist (1853–1895)
- Alcide De Gasperib. 1881ITnot in their usual nameItalian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
- Francesco Cossigab. 1928IT8th President of Italy (1928-2010)
- Francesco Tottib. 1976ITItalian association football player
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)
Attested in 82 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10K | #2,388 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 4.2K | #6 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3K | #1,554 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 343 | #543 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 145 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 44 | #2,388 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 2 | #3,645 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Francesco mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Francesca, equivalent to English Francis Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Francesco have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 676 thousand people named Francesco in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled francesco.
- How common is the name Francesco?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,482 people named Francesco in 2020, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Francesco compared with other names?
- In Italy, Francesco is the 2nd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Francesco?
- In the etymology graph, Francisco, Frank and Franz are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Francesco a male or female name?
- Francesco is a male 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 do you want to know about Francesco?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/francescoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Francesco” — the 2nd most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.