Franc

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Franc is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: altération de Franck; issu de Franco, dérivé de Franc, nom d’un peuple.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 115◐
  • ALAlbania1 in 9K
  • SESweden1 in 72K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈20K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
15 ●

170 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 115 ◐

Slovenia

Meaning & origin●

recorded in French

altération de Franck; issu de Franco, dérivé de Franc, nom d’un peuple

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Franc is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#318,316△13 rec.1 in 11518KFranc5
AL Albania—340—1 in 9K340——
US United States—320△82 rec.1 in 1M580Franc15
ES Spain—250△17 rec.1 in 200K250Franc4
BR Brazil—247—1 in 857K479——
SE Sweden—141—1 in 72K141——
PL Poland—25—1 in 1.5M410——
CR Costa Rica—11—1 in 463K11——
CH Switzerland—71 rec.—108Franc3
FI Finland—7—1 in 796K52——
TW Taiwan—72 rec.——Franc8
NL Netherlands—66 rec.—74Franc4

Roughly 18K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 115). 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●

  • Hungarian49K45%
  • English14K13%
  • Spanish11K10%
  • French11K10%
  • Portuguese4.6K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian49,00245%
English13,94513%
Spanish11,15710%
French10,96410%
Portuguese4,6144%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Franc is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name32K records spelled Franc8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Cameroon

    Also written Franç, Frãnč, Frànc, Frânć, Frañc

  • English given name28K records spelled Franc11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Franç, Franć, Fränc, Fraenc

  • Spanish given name20K records spelled Franc8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Franç, Franć, Frăñč, Fřâňč, Frąnc

  • Polish given name18K records spelled Franc6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Frąnc, Fránc, Fřănč

  • Polish given name12K records spelled Franc62 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Croatia

    Languages: Polish, Croatian, Czech

    Also written Frank, Franz, Франц, Frenk, Franck

  • a separate given name3.8K records spelled Franc3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Franç, Frânc

  • Albanian given name1.6K records spelled Franc3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania

    Also written Franç, Fŕăñć

  • Italian given name867 records spelled Franc2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Franç

54 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●

Franc is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, replaced by the euro.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, a Frank (Germanic tribe)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In frm, franc (unit of currency)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, franc (currency)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, free, exempt

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

02550751002000200520102015202092 · 1999

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Franc in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199992
200091
200190
200291
200387
200485
200584
200682
200781
200880
200981
201077
201176
201271
201368
201466
201565
201663
201763
201865
201965
202064

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Franc-Lamy, b. 1855Franc Snoj, b. 1902Franc Rozman, b. 1912Franc Rode, b. 1934Frank Thomas, b. 1936Franc Roddam, b. 1946Franc Luz, b. 1950Franc D'Ambrosio, b. 1962Franc But, b. 1962Erwin Mulder, b. 1989

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 69 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Franc
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202518K#1
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—18K#3
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—2K#593
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2K#597
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)19781.5K#1,006
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020580#40,641
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000529#39,176
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—479#14,706
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010432#48,800
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026410—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—410#8,054
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026395—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-12 data build · 231 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Franc?
We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Franc (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Franc have the most bearers?
We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Franc in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled franc.
Where is Franc most common?
Franc is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 115 people carrying it.
How common is Franc compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Franc is the 3rd most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
Is Franc a male or female name?
Franc 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.
What does the name Franc mean?
Recorded meaning: altération de Franck; issu de Franco, dérivé de Franc, nom d’un peuple
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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, “Franc” — the 3rd most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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