Franciska

given name · Latin script

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

/fra˨˦nt̪s̪is̪ka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Franciska is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Francisca.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 453
  • NLNetherlands1 in 5.1K

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.

Slovenia (measured from records)

4,637 people, 2025

Sources
81 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 453 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Frančiška in SI Slovenia.

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)

From Latin Francisca.

Sources 2

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Franciska 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 Franciska is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia—4,6371 in 4534.6KFrančiška9
NL Netherlands—3,3801 in 5.1K3.4KFranciska8
ID Indonesia—≈2,900 est.≈1 in 91Klisted——
HR Croatia#2981,3111 in 3.2K1.3KFranciska39
HU Hungary#839≈860 est.≈1 in 11K102Franciska81
LV Latvia—601 in 31K60——

4,637 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025. 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); magyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the id-github-names 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Franciska is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Frančiška, Françiska, Franciška, Francïska

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Canada

    Also written Françiska

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, United States, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fràncìskà, Fráncïská, Francïska, Françiska, Frančiška

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Sweden, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Franciška

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Françiska

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Frančiška

  • Czech given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, Netherlands

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Franciška, Frančiška

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Franciska 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1700180019002000Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, b. 1728Fáni Dalnokiné Konti, b. 1842Ferike Boros, b. 1873Ferike Vidor, b. 1889Franciska Clausen, b. 1899Franciska Gaal, b. 1901Franciska Győry, b. 1940Franciska Rosenkilde, b. 1976Franciska Friede, b. 1988Franciska Törőcsik, b. 1990

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)

InformalBok Franciska,Hi Franciska, (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 40 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Franciska
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—3.4K#566
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.3K#481
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—981#2,098
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021770—
HU Hungarymagyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F)2025102#93
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200865#739
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200964#757
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201062#781
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—60—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201160#809
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201258#836
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—57#1,490

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Franciska mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Francisca. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
Is Franciska a male or female name?
Franciska 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.
What are other forms of the name Franciska?
In the etymology graph, Frances, Francisca and Fanny are forms of the same name in other languages; Franci and Fanni are recorded short or pet forms.
How do you pronounce Franciska?
A machine transcription gives /fra˨˦nt̪s̪is̪ka/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Franciska have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Franciska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frančiška.
Where is Franciska most common?
Franciska is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 453 people carrying it.
How common is the name Franciska?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 4,637 people named Franciska in 2025, about 1 in 453 residents.
How common is Franciska compared with other names?
In Croatia, Franciska is the 298th most common given name of 14,066 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, “Franciska” — the 298th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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