Françoise
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Françoise is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Origine latine, signifie « Franc »; nom du peuple franc/français du VIe au IXe s.
- MQMartinique1 in 110◐
- GPGuadeloupe1 in 124
- FRFrance1 in 169
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈414K ●
- #594 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 405 ●
- 1 in 169 ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
1.6M records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Francois in FR France, US United States, CA Canada and 9 more, Francoise in BR Brazil, CL Chile, PE Peru and 4 more, François in ES Spain, CH Switzerland, CM Cameroon and 2 more and Франсуаза in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Origine latine, signifie « Franc »; nom du peuple franc/français du VIe au IXe s.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #5 | 401,405 | 1.5M rec. | 1 in 169 | 401K | Francois | 405 |
| CA Canada | #358 | 34,160 | 30K rec. | — | 1 | Francois | 207 |
| BE Belgium | #37 | 24,343 | 25K rec. | — | 7.4K | Francois | 147 |
| CH Switzerland | #79 | 7,474 | 2.8K rec. | — | 235 | François | 109 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6,956△ | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 2.5K | 7K | Francois | 73 |
| ZA South Africa | #609 | 6,140 | 5.4K rec. | — | — | Francois | 105 |
| MQ Martinique | #4 | 5,869 | 170 rec. | — | 5 | Francois | 19 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #3 | 4,984 | 68 rec. | — | 5 | Francois | 12 |
| US United States | — | 4,354 | 56K rec. | 1 in 76K | 17K | Francois | 313 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,085 | 2.9K rec. | — | listed | Francois | 123 |
| CM Cameroon | #16 | 2,838 | 4.1K rec. | — | 2 | François | 29 |
| CL Chile | — | 1,419 | 124 rec. | — | 8 | Francoise | 33 |
Roughly 401K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 169). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French570K98%
- English4.2K1%
- Portuguese1.2K1%
- Dutch5191%
- German3941%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 569,521 | 98% |
| English | 4,199 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 1,157 | 1% |
| Dutch | 519 | 1% |
| German | 394 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Françoise 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 French, From Française / Frankish; here ‘người đàn bà gốc Franc’, tức ‘người đàn bà Pháp’.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 20 |
| 1901 | 20 |
| 1902 | 25 |
| 1903 | 25 |
| 1904 | 40 |
| 1905 | 30 |
| 1906 | 20 |
| 1907 | 25 |
| 1908 | 30 |
| 1909 | 30 |
| 1910 | 25 |
| 1911 | 20 |
| 1912 | 20 |
| 1913 | 20 |
| 1914 | 35 |
| 1915 | 20 |
| 1916 | 15 |
| 1917 | 25 |
| 1918 | 30 |
| 1919 | 25 |
| 1920 | 25 |
| 1921 | 20 |
| 1922 | 20 |
| 1923 | 25 |
| 1924 | 25 |
| 1925 | 30 |
| 1926 | 25 |
| 1927 | 20 |
| 1928 | 30 |
| 1929 | 30 |
| 1930 | 20 |
| 1931 | 30 |
| 1932 | 30 |
| 1933 | 20 |
| 1934 | 25 |
| 1935 | 30 |
| 1936 | 25 |
| 1937 | 20 |
| 1938 | 25 |
| 1939 | 15 |
| 1940 | 35 |
| 1941 | 30 |
| 1942 | 30 |
| 1943 | 25 |
| 1944 | 20 |
| 1945 | 45 |
| 1946 | 35 |
| 1947 | 30 |
| 1948 | 40 |
| 1949 | 30 |
| 1950 | 35 |
| 1951 | 40 |
| 1952 | 30 |
| 1953 | 30 |
| 1954 | 30 |
| 1955 | 45 |
| 1956 | 45 |
| 1957 | 55 |
| 1958 | 35 |
| 1959 | 35 |
| 1960 | 40 |
| 1961 | 20 |
| 1962 | 40 |
| 1963 | 45 |
| 1964 | 30 |
| 1965 | 40 |
| 1966 | 45 |
| 1967 | 35 |
| 1968 | 35 |
| 1969 | 25 |
| 1970 | 35 |
| 1971 | 25 |
| 1972 | 25 |
| 1973 | 20 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 15 |
| 1976 | 15 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 10 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 5 |
GP INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) — 91 years between 1900–1992. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Madame de Maintenonb. 1635FRnot in their usual nameMistress and later secret wife of King Louis XIV of France (1635-1719)
- Germaine Tillionb. 1907FRnot in their usual nameFrench anthropologist (1907 - 2008)
- Françoise Gilotb. 1921FRFrench painter, art critic, writer and beloved of Pablo Picasso (1921–2023)
- Anouk Aiméeb. 1932FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1932–2024)
- Françoise Saganb. 1935FRFrench writer (1935-2004)
- Françoise Dorléacb. 1942FRFrench actress (1942–1967)
- Françoise Hardyb. 1944FRFrench singer (1944–2024)
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussib. 1947FRFrench virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
- Béatrice Dalleb. 1964FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Chiara Mastroiannib. 1972FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 28 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 361 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Françoise?
- We estimate roughly 414 thousand people bear Françoise (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Françoise have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 401 thousand people bear Françoise in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled francois.
- How common is Françoise compared with other names?
- In France, Françoise is the 5th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Françoise a male or female name?
- Françoise is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Françoise mean?
- Recorded meaning: Origine latine, signifie « Franc »; nom du peuple franc/français du VIe au IXe s.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Françoise” — the 5th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.