Franciska
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- France (INSEE, 1935): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: magyarnevek.hu, 2025
/fraɲt͡ɕiska/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Franciska is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Francisca.
- SISlovenia1 in 453(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 3.2K
- HUHungary≈1 in 3.4Kfew records
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 453 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Franciska
- Indonesian:/fraɲt͡ɕiska/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Hungarian:/ˈfrɒnt͡siʃkɒ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Latin Francisca.
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 60K | listed | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 4,637 | 1 in 453 | 4.6K | Frančiška | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,380 | 1 in 5.1K | 3.4K | Franciska | 8 |
| HU Hungary | #839 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 102 | Franciska | 81 |
| HR Croatia | #298 | 1,311 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.3K | Franciska | 39 |
| LV Latvia | — | 60 | 1 in 31K | 60 | — | — |
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 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)- Maria Anna Sophia of Saxonyb. 1728DEnot in their usual namewife of Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria; daughter of Augustus III of Poland and Maria Josepha of Austria
- Ferike Borosb. 1873USnot in their usual nameStage and movie actress
- Franciska Gaalb. 1901HUHungarian cabaret artist and film actress (1903–1972)
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)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
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 used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; France (INSEE, 1935): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- 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?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /fraɲt͡ɕiska/; in Hungarian /ˈfrɒnt͡siʃkɒ/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Franciska?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Franciska in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Slovenia, Netherlands, Hungary and Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Franciska most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Franciska is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 453 people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/franciskaThe 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, “Franciska” — the 298th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.