Franziska
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Franziska is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ) Francisca: im 16. Jh.
- DEGermany≈1 in 894(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.2K
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.8K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 894 (inferred from the name graph)
≈90,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, 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)
) Francisca: im 16. Jh. auf gekommener weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Franziska 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #182 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 894 | 13 | Franziska | 250 |
| CH Switzerland | #101 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Franziska | 114 |
| AT Austria | #263 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 6.2K | Franziska | 113 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 383K | — | Franziska | 9 |
| US United States | — | 876 | 1 in 380K | 875 | Franziska | 198 |
| SE Sweden | — | 431 | 1 in 24K | 431 | Franziska | 25 |
| IS Iceland | — | 15 | 1 in 23K | 15 | — | 4 |
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: the de-munich-standesamt register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Franziska 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.
Feminine form of FRANZ.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Basque, Francisca, hacha u hoz. Gure franziska edo aizkorea zeiñ zorrotza dan . Ag AL 160s.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburgb. 1675DEnot in their usual nameGerman princess (1675-1733)
- Maria Amalia of Saxonyb. 1724ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain (1724-1760)
- Maria Christina von Sachsenb. 1735PLnot in their usual namePrincess of Saxony and an Abbess (1735-1782)
- Fanny Elsslerb. 1810ATnot in their usual nameAustrian ballerina (1810-1884)
- Marie of Prussiab. 1825DEnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Bavaria; youngest child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg
- Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháryb. 1848DEnot in their usual namePrincess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Angela Hitlerb. 1883ATnot in their usual nameelder half-sister of Adolf Hitler (1883-1949)
- Archduchess Adelheid of Austriab. 1914ATnot in their usual nameArchduchess of Austria (1914–1971)
- Franziska Giffeyb. 1978DEGerman politician, former Mayor of Berlin
- Franziska van Almsickb. 1978DEGerman swimmer
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 50 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 6.2K | #57 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 875 | #13,698 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 431 | #3,076 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 171 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 146 | #57 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Standesamt — Vornamenstatistik PDF (official publication) | 2024 | 13 | #128 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2023 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 6 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #13,698 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 1 | #1 |
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
- In which country does Franziska have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 90 thousand people named Franziska in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled franziska.
- What are other forms of the name Franziska?
- In the etymology graph, Frances, Francisca and Fanny are forms of the same name in other languages; Franzi and Fränze are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Franziska mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Francisca: im 16. Jh.
- Is Franziska a male or female name?
- Franziska 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.
- How common is the name Franziska?
- In the United States, the national register counted 876 people named Franziska in 2020, about 1 in 380 thousand residents.
- How common is Franziska compared with other names?
- In Germany, Franziska is the 182nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/franziskaThe 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, “Franziska” — the 182nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.