Francesc

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Francesc is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In New Zealand it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Catalan, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Saint Francis of Assisi.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 839◐
  • SESweden1 in 840
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 844

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

≈268K ●

across 12 countries

#662 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
502 ●

3.8M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 840 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

FrancesLatin · English●3.6M records
פרנססHebrew · Hebrew●866 records
ฟรานเซสThai · Thai●20 records
프랜시스Hangul · Korean●2 records
ΦράνςGreek · Greek●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Frances in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 13 more and Frans in NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa, FI Finland and 5 more.

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●

Saint Francis of Assisi

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Francesc is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#140246,521214K rec.—5Frances224
US United States#160199,9583M rec.1 in 1.7K200KFrances502
AU Australia#222101,25491K rec.—77Frances215
CA Canada#21164,08862K rec.—8Frances183
FR France—28,330△339 rec.1 in 2.4K28KFrancesc87
PH Philippines#77627,11221K rec.——Frances120
IT Italy#34123,39124K rec.—1Frances57
ZA South Africa#11720,04628K rec.——Frans80
ES Spain#24416,59048K rec.1 in 3K17KFrancesc173
DE Germany#75016,05216K rec.—listedFrances121
SE Sweden#72512,150△1.8K rec.1 in 84012KFrans53
NZ New Zealand#6410,1469.5K rec.—17Frances104

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish131K81%
  • Catalan17K10%
  • English3.6K2%
  • French3.3K2%
  • Portuguese1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish130,81881%
Catalan16,76710%
English3,6182%
French3,2662%
Portuguese1,1901%

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◐

Francesc is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.6K records spelled Francesc3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Françesc, Francesç

  • Hindi given name494 records spelled Francesc3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Francésc

  • Russian given name253 records spelled Francesc6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Франсеск, Франсэск

  • Bulgarian given name197 records spelled Francesc7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Францеск

  • Turkish given name149 records spelled Francesc3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Françesc

39 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.

Over time●

0510152015202015 · 2019

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Francesc in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2014–2020
Yearrecords
201412
201512
201614
201713
201812
201915
202015

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 7 years between 2014–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Francisco Palóu, b. 1723Francisco Pi y Margall, b. 1824Francesc Macià, b. 1859Francesc Cambó, b. 1876Francisco Buscató, b. 1940Francesc Orella i Pinell, b. 1957Ximo Puig, b. 1959Tito Vilanova, b. 1968Cesc Fàbregas, b. 1987Francesc Colomer Estruch, b. 1997

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 25 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Francesc
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—17K#170
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—17K#399
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—42#9,615
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—28#16,236
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—26#164,002
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—25#21,693
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#27,024
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198919—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—16#6,861
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202616#7,469
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—16—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202015—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 80 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Francesc?
We estimate roughly 268 thousand people bear Francesc (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Francesc have the most bearers?
Francesc is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled frances.
How common is Francesc compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Francesc is the 140th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Francesc a male or female name?
Francesc 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 Francesc mean?
Recorded meaning: Saint Francis of Assisi
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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, “Francesc” — the 140th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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