Franjo

given name · Croatian · Latin script

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

Franjo is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pers. name (F Tudjman).

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 205◐
  • SISlovenia1 in 2.2K
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 1.2K

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

≈22K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
86 ●

113K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 205 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

FranjoLatin · Croatian●184K records
ФрањоCyrillic · Serbian●5 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●

pers. name (F Tudjman)

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Franjo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#2120,623111K rec.1 in 20521KFranjo86
SI Slovenia#334961△35 rec.1 in 2.2K961Franjo27
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#21336515 rec.——Franjo25
RS Serbia#760249127 rec.——Franjo16
SE Sweden—113△9 rec.1 in 90K113—10
US United States—109774 rec.1 in 3.1M109Franjo69
CH Switzerland—7023 rec.——Franjo11
CA Canada—5046 rec.——Franjo17
GB United Kingdom—4618 rec.——Franjo10
XK Kosovo—4317 rec.—50Franjo2
NL Netherlands—1917 rec.1 in 909K19Franjo8
HU Hungary—196 rec.——Franjo7

Roughly 21K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 205). 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●

  • Croatian184K96%
  • German2.7K1%
  • Hungarian2.5K1%
  • English9561%
  • Spanish3341%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian184,38396%
German2,6641%
Hungarian2,4571%
English9561%
Spanish3341%

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●

Franjo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of frangir

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

  • In Portuguese, first-person singular present indicative of franjar

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

  • In Esperanto, sis, sissy (diminutive of sister)

    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●

05010015020002005201020152020123 · 1999

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Franjo in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999123
2000122
2001121
2002121
2003119
2004120
2005119
2006118
2007114
2008112
2009107
2010104
2011100
201297
201396
201497
2015100
201697
201797
201895
201995
202091

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●

180018501900195020002050Franjo Rački, b. 1828Franjo Bučar, b. 1866Franjo Šeper, b. 1905Franjo Punčec, b. 1913Franjo Wölfl, b. 1918Franjo Kuharić, b. 1919Franjo Mihalić, b. 1920Franjo Tuđman, b. 1922Franjo Arapović, b. 1965Franjo Ivanović, b. 2003

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 34 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Franjo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202121K#31
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202114K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20081.5K#131
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20091.5K#134
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20101.5K#135
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20111.4K#139
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20121.4K#144
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20131.4K#145
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20141.3K#148
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20151.3K#150
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20161.3K#153
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20171.2K#154

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 · 134 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Franjo?
We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Franjo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Franjo have the most bearers?
We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Franjo in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled franjo.
Where is Franjo most common?
Franjo is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 205 people carrying it.
How common is Franjo compared with other names?
In Croatia, Franjo is the 21st most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
Is Franjo a male or female name?
Franjo 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 Franjo mean?
Recorded meaning: pers. name (F Tudjman)
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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, “Franjo” — the 21st most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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