Françisco

given name · Latin script

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

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Françisco is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 1,665,494 people, counted by IBGE in 2022. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Francisco, from Latin Franciscus. Françisco is also written Франциско in Cyrillic and Φρανσίσκο in Greek.

  • NINicaragua≈1 in 75(inferred from the name graph)
  • MXMexico≈1 in 88
  • ESSpain1 in 117

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,665,494 people, 2022

#69 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
521 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 75 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Françisco in other scripts: Cyrillic and Greek

(measured from records)
FrançiscoLatin(measured from records)
ФранцискоFrançisco in Cyrillic(measured from records)
ΦρανσίσκοFrançisco in Greek(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Francisco in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, AR Argentina and 3 more and Fräncïscö in DO Dominican Republic.

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 Françisco: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Françisco
  1. SpanishFrancisco(measured from records)
  2. LatinFranciscus(measured from records)

From Spanish Francisco, from Latin Franciscus.

Cited for this meaning 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Françisco 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 Françisco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#81,665,4941 in 1271.8MFrancisco249
MX Mexico#10≈1,500,000 est.≈1 in 884.9KFrancisco286
ES Spain#6426,6751 in 117457KFrancisco314
AR Argentina#37≈250,000 est.≈1 in 1822.8KFrancisco203
US United States#359246,2321 in 1.4K245KFrancisco521
DO Dominican Republic—≈110,000 est.≈1 in 10631KFräncïscö107
NI Nicaragua#7≈93,000 est.≈1 in 75—Francisco90

1,665,494 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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Françisco is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name31 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Francisco, Fráncisco, Fräńçïşçö, Fränciscö, Fráncíscö

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Philippines, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Francisco

8 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 Françisco 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 Françisco mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Francisco, from Latin Franciscus. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 5 other sources.
Is Françisco a male or female name?
Françisco 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.
Which countries have the most people named Françisco?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.7 million people named Françisco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled francisco. After it come Mexico, Spain, Argentina and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Françisco?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,665,494 people named Françisco in 2022, about 1 in 127 residents.
How common is Françisco compared with other names?
In Brazil, Françisco is the 8th most common given name of 474,894 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, “Françisco” — ranked 4th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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