Francesco

given name · Italian · Latin script

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

Francesco is a given name, most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Italian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Francesca, equivalent to English Francis.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly1 in 120◐
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.3K
  • BEBelgium1 in 3K

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

≈21K ●

across 14 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
341 ●

472K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 9.8K ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

FrancescoLatin · Italian●400K records
פרנצ'סקוHebrew · Hebrew●77 records
ΦραντσέσκοGreek · Greek●2 records
프란체스코Hangul · Korean●0 records

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●

a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Francesca, equivalent to English Francis

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Francesco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#8421,513387K rec.—4.2KFrancesco284
US United States—10,43841K rec.1 in 32K10KFrancesco341
GB United Kingdom—6,5784.2K rec.—3Francesco171
BE Belgium#3635,0955.6K rec.——Francesco104
CH Switzerland#1703,4592.4K rec.——Francesco119
ES Spain—3,1273.3K rec.1 in 16K3.1KFrancesco119
FR France—2,96021K rec.1 in 23K3KFrancesco271
CA Canada—2,2852.1K rec.—1Francesco123
BR Brazil—1,714△11 rec.1 in 124K1.7K—2
NL Netherlands—1,183835 rec.—474Francesco87
PL Poland—1,085△16 rec.1 in 35K1.1K—2
PE Peru—1,084898 rec.——Francesco48

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

Languages●

  • Italian400K38%
  • German248K23%
  • Spanish96K9%
  • English84K8%
  • Arabic67K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Italian399,87338%
German247,71923%
Spanish96,4299%
English83,6018%
Arabic67,0416%

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◐

Francesco is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name370K records spelled Francesco28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Francescoe, Fràncèscò, Francescó, Frâncêscő, Fräncëscö

  • Spanish given name165K records spelled Francesco17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Francésco, Francêsco, Francësco, Françesco, Francescò

  • Polish given name18K records spelled Francesco51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Poland, Croatia, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Croatian, Russian

    Also written Франческо, Francesko, Franchesko, Frančesko, Franceško

  • a separate given name13K records spelled Francesco3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Francêsco, Francésco

  • Indonesian given name4.3K records spelled Francesco3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Francescö

  • Turkish given name3.8K records spelled Francesco7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Turkish, Kazakh, Azerbaijani

    Also written Fràncèscò

  • Lao given name2.0K records spelled Francesco44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Francisco, Francis, Franco, ฟรานซิส, ฟรานซิสโก

49 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●

Francesco 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 Italian, Dal latino Franciscus, 'francese'; nome reso popolare da san Francesco d'Assisi, in uso in Italia dall'XI secolo.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, dal germanico Francisk, ‘franco, libero’

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In German, Francesco Petrarca, italienischer Dichter und Humanist

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Italian, forma italiana de Franciscus

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In French, Forme italienne de François, du latin Franciscus « franc, libre ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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●

050100150200192019401960198020002020166 · 2006

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Francesco in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1906–2025
Yearrecords
19066
19075
190813
191010
19119
191228
191336
191436
191536
191628
191739
191830
191934
192023
192130
192226
192322
192419
192515
192623
192712
192815
192917
193020
193116
193210
19336
193411
19359
193610
19378
19387
19399
19426
19435
19466
194715
194815
194919
195018
195113
195226
195335
195431
195531
195633
195739
195836
195920
196028
196133
196238
196343
196452
196553
196648
196762
196870
196976
197088
197180
197278
1973103
1974105
1975119
1976112
1977102
1978106
1979105
1980131
1981108
198292
198391
198496
1985108
1986108
1987113
1988106
1989111
1990151
1991140
1992114
1993136
1994124
1995139
1996131
1997118
1998139
1999145
2000148
2001139
2002148
2003142
2004143
2005161
2006166
2007153
2008127
2009151
2010117
2011138
2012119
2013121
2014144
2015131
2016137
2017120
2018122
2019107
2020134
2021130
2022128
2023147
2024160
2025145

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 115 years between 1906–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Francesco Petrarca, b. 1304Sixtus IV, b. 1414Pius III, b. 1439Francesco Redi, b. 1626Clemens XI, b. 1649Benedictus XIII, b. 1649Francesco Filippini, b. 1853Alcide De Gasperi, b. 1881Francesco Cossiga, b. 1928Francesco Totti, b. 1976
  • Francesco Petrarcab. 1304ITItalian scholar and poet (1304-1374)
  • Sixtus IVb. 1414ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1471 to 1484 (1414-1484)
  • Pius IIIb. 1439ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 22 September to 18 October 1503
  • Francesco Redib. 1626ITItalian entomologist and poet
  • Clemens XIb. 1649ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
  • Benedictus XIIIb. 1649ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1724 to 1730
  • Francesco Filippinib. 1853ITItalian painter and theorist (1853–1895)
  • Alcide De Gasperib. 1881ITnot in their usual nameItalian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
  • Francesco Cossigab. 1928IT8th President of Italy (1928-2010)
  • Francesco Tottib. 1976ITItalian association football player

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 81 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Francesco
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202010K#2,388
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20244.2K#6
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.1K#1,272
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243K#1,554
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.7K#621
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.7K#5,701
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.5K#7,140
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20261.1K#460
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1K#465
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024858#170
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—703#2,170

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 852 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Francesco?
We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Francesco (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Francesco have the most bearers?
Francesco is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled francesco.
How common is Francesco compared with other names?
In Italy, Francesco is the 8th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.
Is Francesco a male or female name?
Francesco 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 Francesco mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Francesca, equivalent to English Francis
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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, “Francesco” — the 8th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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