Franciska

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Franciska is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 70th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latin Francisca.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 453◐
  • HRCroatia1 in 3.2K
  • HUHungary1 in 89K

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

≈10K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
80 ●

8.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 453 ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Franciška in RS Serbia.

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●

From Latin Francisca.

Sources 2

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Franciska is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#704,637△11 rec.1 in 4534.6KFranciska7
NL Netherlands—3,352△29 rec.1 in 5.2K3.4KFranciska9
HU Hungary#6781,349391 rec.—102Franciska80
HR Croatia#3731,3117.7K rec.1 in 3.2K1.3KFranciska39
SE Sweden—255△4 rec.1 in 40K255—3
US United States—214193 rec.1 in 1.6M214Franciska36
RS Serbia—11844 rec.——Franciška7
DK Denmark—97—1 in 61K97——
LV Latvia—60—1 in 31K60——
FI Finland—380 rec.1 in 147K84—1
IN India—370 rec.——Franciska2
GB United Kingdom—3025 rec.——Franciska14

Roughly 4.6K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 453). 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●

  • Hungarian16K34%
  • Croatian11K23%
  • English5.9K12%
  • Western Frisian4.3K9%
  • Dutch3.7K8%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian16,22634%
Croatian11,24923%
English5,91812%
Western Frisian4,3339%
Dutch3,6948%

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◐

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

  • English given name17K records spelled Franciska17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Germany, Denmark

    Languages: English, Western Frisian, Dutch

    Also written Françiska, Francïska, Franciška, Frančiška

  • French given name1.3K records spelled Franciska3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Françiska

  • Spanish given name871 records spelled Franciska8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, United States, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Francïska, Françiska, Fráncïská, Frančiška, Fràncìskà

  • Finnish given name380 records spelled Franciska3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Netherlands, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Franciška

  • Swahili given name337 records spelled Franciska3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, United States

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Françiska

  • a separate given name188 records spelled Franciska2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Frančiška

  • Czech given name160 records spelled Franciska5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Netherlands

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Franciška, Frančiška

37 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●

Franciska 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

02040608020002005201020152020

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Franciska in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199968
200069
200170
200267
200367
200470
200570
200669
200771
200869
200968
201068
201164
201266
201365
201466
201566
201669
201772
201872
201973
202075

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●

1700180019002000Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, b. 1728Fáni Dalnokiné Konti, b. 1842Ferike Boros, b. 1873Ferike Vidor, b. 1889Franciska Clausen, b. 1899Franciska Gaal, b. 1901Franciska Győry, b. 1940Franciska Rosenkilde, b. 1976Franciska Friede, b. 1988Franciska Törőcsik, b. 1990

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 40 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Franciska
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—3.4K#566
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.3K#481
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—981#2,098
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021770—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—255#4,410
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020214#36,737
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)1935145#547
HU Hungarymagyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F)2025102#93
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—97#1,651
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—84#6,029
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202075—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—74#9,351

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 160 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Franciska?
We estimate roughly 10 thousand people bear Franciska (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Franciska have the most bearers?
We estimate about 4.6 thousand people bear Franciska in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled franciska.
Where is Franciska most common?
Franciska is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 453 people carrying it.
How common is Franciska compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Franciska is the 70th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
Is Franciska a male or female name?
Franciska is a female 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 Franciska mean?
Recorded meaning: From Latin Francisca.
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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, “Franciska” — the 70th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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