Frantisek

given name · Czech · Latin script

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

Frantisek is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 44◐
  • SKSlovakia1 in 149
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 131K

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

≈246K ●

across 12 countries

Sources
130 ●

16K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 44 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled František in SK Slovakia, GB United Kingdom, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina and 1 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Frantisek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#17245,820△11K rec.1 in 44246KFrantisek130
SK Slovakia#2716,421885 rec.——František113
GB United Kingdom—1,581706 rec.——František62
DE Germany—628507 rec.—listedFrantisek55
NO Norway—18510 rec.—184Frantisek4
AT Austria—17874 rec.—9Frantisek25
US United States—1692.1K rec.1 in 2M169Frantisek104
AU Australia—157144 rec.—1Frantisek23
CA Canada—138117 rec.—1Frantisek21
PL Poland—122△30 rec.1 in 314K122Frantisek25
CY Cyprus—9644 rec.——Frantisek5
CH Switzerland—9039 rec.——Frantisek18

Roughly 246K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 44). 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●

  • Czech652K99%
  • English1.7K1%
  • Slovak1.7K1%
  • German6991%
  • Polish5731%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech652,27399%
English1,7361%
Slovak1,7251%
German6991%
Polish5731%

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◐

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

  • Finnish given name470 records spelled Frantisek2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written František

  • a separate given name200 records spelled Frantisek7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

    Also written František, Frantisĕk, Frantis̆ek, Frantiŝek, Frantis̄ek

  • Croatian given name115 records spelled Frantisek15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Russia, Bulgaria, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written František, Франтишек, Frantishek

  • Ukrainian given name58 records spelled Frantisek16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Франтішек, Frantishek, Франтишек, Францішак, Франтисек

  • Catalan given name56 records spelled Frantisek2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written František

33 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●

Frantisek 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.

  • Czech form of FRANCESCO . Feminine form: Franti ka. Pet forms: Franta, Frantík, Franek, Fanou ek m; Frá a m, f .

    as a word

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●

0204060802000200520102015202070 · 2011

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Frantisek in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199967
200064
200160
200259
200360
200460
200559
200658
200761
200864
200966
201069
201170
201270
201367
201466
201561
201659
201762
201859
201954
202051

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.

Evidence●

Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Frantisek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—215#3,344
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—184#5,072
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020169#42,346
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201270—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201170—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201069—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201367—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)199967—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201466—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200966—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200864—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200064—

Reference works 1

  • 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 · 61 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Frantisek?
We estimate roughly 246 thousand people bear Frantisek (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Frantisek have the most bearers?
We estimate about 246 thousand people bear Frantisek in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled frantisek.
Where is Frantisek most common?
Frantisek is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 44 people carrying it.
How common is Frantisek compared with other names?
In the Czechia, Frantisek is the 17th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
Is Frantisek a male or female name?
Frantisek 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.
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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, “Frantisek” — the 17th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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