Franjo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pers. name (F Tudjman)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fraɲo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Franjo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 205(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 2.2K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 4.8K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 205 (inferred from the name graph)
20,623 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
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)
pers. name (F Tudjman)
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Franjo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #10 | 20,623 | 1 in 205 | 21K | Franjo | 89 |
| SI Slovenia | #316 | 961 | 1 in 2.2K | 961 | Franjo | 29 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #216 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Franjo | 25 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 25 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | #796 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Franjo | 16 |
20,623 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Franjo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of frangir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, first-person singular present indicative of franjar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, sis, sissy (diminutive of sister)
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)
- Franjo Račkib. 1828HRCroatian historian, politician and writer (1828-1894)
- Franjo Bučarb. 1866HRCroatian sports writer (1866-1946)
- Franjo Šeperb. 1905HRCroatian Roman Catholic cardinal (1905–1981)
- Franjo Punčecb. 1913HRYugoslav tennis player (1913-1985)
- Franjo Wölflb. 1918HRYugoslavian footballer (1918–1987)
- Franjo Kuharićb. 1919HRArchbishop of Zagreb and cardinal. (1919–2002)
- Franjo Mihalićb. 1920HRYugoslav long-distance runner
- Franjo Tuđmanb. 1922HRCroatian politician, soldier, president and historian (1922–1999)
- Franjo Arapovićb. 1965HRCroatian basketball player (born 1965)
- Franjo Ivanovićb. 2003ATCroatian footballer
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 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 21K | #31 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 14K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 1.5K | #131 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 1.5K | #134 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 1.5K | #135 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 1.4K | #139 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 1.4K | #144 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 1.4K | #145 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 1.3K | #148 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 1.3K | #150 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 1.3K | #153 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 1.2K | #154 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Franjo mean, and where does it come from?
- pers. name (F Tudjman) Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Franjo have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Franjo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled franjo.
- Where is Franjo most common?
- Franjo is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 205 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Franjo?
- A machine transcription gives /fraɲo/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Franjo a male or female name?
- Franjo 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 are other forms of the name Franjo?
- In the etymology graph, Francisco, Frank and Francesco are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Franjo?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 20,623 people named Franjo in 2021, about 1 in 205 residents.
- How common is Franjo compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Franjo is the 10th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Franjo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/franjoThe 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, “Franjo” — the 10th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.