Françis

given name · Latin script

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

Françis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 85th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English Francis, from Latin Franciscus, originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 23K
  • ECEcuador1 in 3.7K

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.

United States (measured from records)

138,493 people, 2020

Sources
386 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Francis in US United States, CM Cameroon.

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)

Derivation of Françis: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Françis
  1. EnglishFrancis(measured from records)
  2. LatinFranciscus(measured from records)

From English Francis, from Latin Franciscus, originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Françis 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 Françis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—138,4931 in 2.4K121KFrancis366
BR Brazil—9,9461 in 21K10K—3
EC Ecuador—4,6051 in 3.7K3K—14
SE Sweden—2,0881 in 4.9K2.1K—17
CR Costa Rica—1,3791 in 3.7K1.4K——
CM Cameroon#85≈1,200 est.≈1 in 23K—Francis38
LV Latvia—3801 in 5K382—6

138,493 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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)

Françis is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Francis, Fråncis, Frâñçîs, Francïs, Fŕancis

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Frâncis, Fräncis, Francis

  • Spanish given name48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Venezuela, Peru

    Also written Francis, Francís, Fráncis, Fräncïs, Fráncís

  • Turkish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom, Nigeria

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Francis, Francís, Frâñçîs

  • Lao given name44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Francisco, Francis, Francesco, Franco, ฟรานซิส

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Francis

18 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Françis under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Françis mean, and where does it come from?
From English Francis, from Latin Franciscus, originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
Is Françis a male or female name?
Françis 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.
In which country does Françis have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 138 thousand people named Françis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled francis.
Where is Françis most common?
Françis is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Françis?
In the United States, the national register counted 138,493 people named Françis in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
How common is Françis compared with other names?
In Cameroon, Françis is the 85th most common given name of 9,064 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, “Françis” — the 85th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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