Francisca
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A throwing axe used as a weapon during the Early Middle Ages by the Franks
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɾanθiska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Francisca is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 230(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 269
- ESSpain1 in 277
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #391 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 332 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 230 (inferred from the name graph)
665,602 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, 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 throwing axe used as a weapon during the Early Middle Ages by the Franks.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Francisca 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #21 | 665,602 | 1 in 318 | 726K | Francisca | 158 |
| ES Spain | #81 | 180,314 | 1 in 277 | 194K | Francisca | 179 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Francisca | 42 |
| CL Chile | #47 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 269 | 352 | Francisca | 175 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Francisca | 62 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #15 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 365 | 18K | Francisca | 41 |
| NI Nicaragua | #13 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 230 | — | Francisca | 21 |
665,602 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual). 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)
Francisca 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 Swedish, Francisca (m.fl. former) är femininformer till latinets Franciscus (→ Frans; jfr även → Francis). I den rikssvenska almanackan 9 februari och i den finlandssvenska 4 okto ber.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Libre
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Luisa de Guzmánb. 1613ESnot in their usual nameDuchess of Braganza; Queen consort of Portugal (1613-1666)
- Franciszka Corvin-Krasińskab. 1742PLnot in their usual namePolish noble (1742-1796)
- Fernán Caballerob. 1796ESnot in their usual nameSpanish women novelist (1796-1877)
- Maria II of Portugalb. 1819BRnot in their usual nameQueen of Portugal (r. 1826–1828; 1834–1853)
- Princess Francisca of Brazilb. 1824BRPrincess of Brazil (1824-1898)
- Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holsteinb. 1872GBnot in their usual nameBritish princess (1872–1956)
- Paquita Ricob. 1929ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress (1929-2017)
- Princess Margriet of the Netherlandsb. 1943NLnot in their usual nameDutch princess; third daughter of Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard (born 1943)
- Cobie Smuldersb. 1982CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress (born 1982)
- Yuridiab. 1985MXnot in their usual nameMexican singer
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 92 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 726K | #39 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 722K | #3 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 666K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 662K | #22 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 194K | #18 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 180K | #43 |
| DO Dominican Republic | JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual) | 2025 | 18K | #8 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4K | #22 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.4K | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 352 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Francisca mean, and where does it come from?
- A throwing axe used as a weapon during the Early Middle Ages by the Franks. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Francisca?
- In the etymology graph, Frances, Fanny and Francesca are forms of the same name in other languages; Paquita is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Francisca?
- A machine transcription gives /fɾanθiska/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Francisca a male or female name?
- Francisca 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.
- In which country does Francisca have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 666 thousand people named Francisca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled francisca.
- How common is the name Francisca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 665,602 people named Francisca in 2022, about 1 in 318 residents.
- How common is Francisca compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Francisca is the 21st most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/franciscaThe 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, “Francisca” — the 21st most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.