Franciscus

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in German: from Latin Franciscus 'Frankish, French'

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/frɑnsɪskʏs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Franciscus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 101(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 24K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 277K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

170,543 people

Sources
130 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 101 (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Latin Franciscus 'Frankish, French'

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

How Franciscus is read(measured from records)

Franciscus 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.

  • Dutch35%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Franciscus in Dutch.

  • English19%

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    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • German10%

    from Latin Franciscus 'Frankish, French'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

    Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Franz < lat. Franciscus; 615 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

    patronymische Familiennamen zu Rufname Franciscus (Franz).

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • Indonesian7.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Franciscus in Indonesian.

  • French6.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Franciscus in French.

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)

Franciscus 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.

Where Franciscus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#470170,5431 in 101168KFranciscus88
ID Indonesia—≈3,800 est.≈1 in 70Klisted—1
ZA South Africa—≈750 est.≈1 in 75K—Franciscus14
BE Belgium—≈500 est.≈1 in 24K2Franciscus52
DE Germany—≈290 est.≈1 in 277K—Franciscus40
SE Sweden—1821 in 56K182—9

170,543 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Franciscus 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 Latin, zu lat. Franciscus / Rufname Franz; 617 Namensträger

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

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)

1400160018002000Franciscus Gomarus, b. 1563Franciscus Sylvius, b. 1614Jan Frans Vonck, b. 1743Franciscus Cornelis Donders, b. 1818Henk Sneevliet, b. 1883Hans van Mierlo, b. 1931Ruud Lubbers, b. 1939Frans Timmermans, b. 1961Danny Blind, b. 1961Frank de Boer, b. 1970
  • Franciscus Gomarusb. 1563BEDutch theologian (1563-1641)
  • Franciscus Sylviusb. 1614NLDutch physician and chemist of Leyden, Netherlands
  • Jan Frans Vonckb. 1743BEnot in their usual nameFlemish/Belgian lawyer (1743-1792)
  • Franciscus Cornelis Dondersb. 1818NLDutch ophthalmologist (1818-1889)
  • Henk Sneevlietb. 1883NLnot in their usual name20th-century Dutch communist politician (1883–1942)
  • Hans van Mierlob. 1931NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician (1931–2010)
  • Ruud Lubbersb. 1939NLnot in their usual namePrime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994
  • Frans Timmermansb. 1961NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician (born 1961)
  • Danny Blindb. 1961NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football manager (born 1961)
  • Frank de Boerb. 1970NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player and manager (born 1970)

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)

InformalHallo Franciscus,Hi Franciscus, (English)

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 37 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Franciscus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200753#29,719
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082#137,429

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Franciscus mean, and where does it come from?
from Latin Franciscus 'Frankish, French' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Franciscus?
A machine transcription gives /frɑnsɪskʏs/ (IPA) for Dutch.
Is Franciscus a male or female name?
Franciscus 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 Franciscus?
In the etymology graph, Francisco, Frank and Francesco are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Franciscus have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 171 thousand people named Franciscus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled franciscus.
Where is Franciscus most common?
Franciscus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 101 people carrying it.
How common is the name Franciscus?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 170,543 people named Franciscus, about 1 in 101 residents.
How common is Franciscus compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Franciscus is the 470th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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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, “Franciscus” — the 470th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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