Franz

given name · German · Latin script

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

Franz is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is the 60th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Surname from the given name Franz; 15,833 bearers.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria1 in 309◐
  • DEGermany1 in 359
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 893

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

≈8.7K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
316 ●

561K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.8K ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin●

Surname from the given name Franz; 15,833 bearers. Map shows -ze vs -z variants and rare -t- spellings (Fran(t)z, Frants).

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Franz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#60337,463349K rec.——Franz248
AT Austria#6053,54123K rec.—4.4KFranz179
PH Philippines—10,7546.6K rec.——Franz93
CH Switzerland#688,7652.8K rec.—743Franz100
NL Netherlands—3,996794 rec.—432Franz51
US United States—3,800140K rec.1 in 88K12KFranz316
AU Australia—2,7154.9K rec.——Franz108
BE Belgium#7272,6432.9K rec.—171Franz64
SE Sweden—1,865△242 rec.1 in 5.5K1.9K—48
BO Bolivia#701,6411.8K rec.——Franz34
GB United Kingdom—1,4205.5K rec.——Franz71
IT Italy—1,3542.2K rec.—7Franz88

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

Languages●

  • German432K71%
  • Spanish58K9%
  • English40K7%
  • Portuguese21K4%
  • French11K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German431,83571%
Spanish57,5729%
English40,0897%
Portuguese21,4364%
French11,3752%

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◐

Franz is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name30K records spelled Franz4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, Switzerland, United States

    Also written Fránz, Fränz, Frànz

  • French given name18K records spelled Franz4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Fränz, Frànz

  • Polish given name9.8K records spelled Franz8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Fřăňž, Fránž, Fřäňż, Fřânž, Fränz

  • a separate given name9.4K records spelled Franz2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Bolivia, Italy

    Also written Fränz

  • Polish given name4.3K records spelled Franz62 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Croatia

    Languages: Polish, Croatian, Czech

    Also written Frank, Franc, Франц, Frenk, Franck

  • Danish given name3.9K records spelled Franz6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Frånz

  • Indonesian given name3.1K records spelled Franz2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Peru

    Also written Fŕáńź

  • Finnish given name2.8K records spelled Franz3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Switzerland, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Fränz

83 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●

Franz 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.

  • German form of Italian }Francesco. See Italian supplement, and see }Francis in main dictionary.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In German, zu dem Rufnamen Franz/Franziskus; die Karte zeigt Varianten mit a/o und mit/ohne -t-/-tz- sowie -n-/-nn-.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Patronym zu Rufname Franz, lat. Franciscus, ital. Francesco; Kurzform zu Franziskus.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Franz < Franziskus; 15.833 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, zum Rufnamen Franz (aus Franciscus); belegt mit 411 Trägern

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

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●

020406019001950200060 · 1963

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Franz in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1889–2025
Yearrecords
18897
18936
18947
18955
19025
19066
19096
19105
19116
191213
191312
191422
191521
191634
191723
191816
19197
192017
192115
192213
192312
19246
192517
192612
192719
192822
192918
193018
193119
193222
193322
193418
193521
193631
193729
193824
193925
194026
194127
194234
194320
194424
194518
194628
194719
194818
194929
195024
195128
195224
195334
195432
195535
195630
195744
195837
195933
196042
196139
196248
196360
196445
196555
196643
196733
196844
196937
197046
197140
197241
197326
197426
197540
197633
197730
197823
197923
198041
198121
198217
198323
198440
198526
198637
198737
198827
198930
199029
199125
199219
199323
199424
199525
199627
199724
199823
199916
200017
200123
200219
200318
200421
200513
200622
200718
200811
200917
201015
201111
201218
201326
201411
201515
201620
201712
201812
20198
202014
202114
202211
202311
202417
202517

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 123 years between 1889–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Eugene of Savoy, b. 1663Karl VI, b. 1685Franz Anton Mesmer, b. 1734Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, b. 1768Franz Liszt, b. 1811Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, b. 1858Franz Ferdinand, b. 1863Franz von Papen, b. 1879Franz Marc, b. 1880Franz Waxman, b. 1906
  • Eugene of Savoyb. 1663FRnot in their usual nameprince of the house of Savoy, then commander in chief of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire (1663-1736)
  • Karl VIb. 1685ATnot in their usual name18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
  • Franz Anton Mesmerb. 1734DEGerman physician
  • Francis II, Holy Roman Emperorb. 1768FRnot in their usual namealso known as Francis I, Emperor of Austria (1768-1835)
  • Franz Lisztb. 1811ATHungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (1811-1886)
  • Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austriab. 1858ATnot in their usual nameAustrian archduke (1858-1889)
  • Franz Ferdinandb. 1863ATheir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary (1863–1914)
  • Franz von Papenb. 1879DEGerman general staff officer, politician, diplomat, nobleman and Chancellor of Germany (1879–1969)
  • Franz Marcb. 1880DEGerman artist (1880–1916)
  • Franz Waxmanb. 1906DEGerman film composer (1906-1967)

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 96 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Franz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200012K#2,853
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201011K#3,153
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202011K#3,189
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20244.4K#114
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.8K#4,707
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.9K#1,094
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022929—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—922#8,706
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—897#9,870
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2014850#2,557
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024743#1,664
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024623#865

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 781 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Franz?
We estimate roughly 8.7 thousand people bear Franz (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Franz have the most bearers?
Franz is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled franz.
How common is Franz compared with other names?
In Germany, Franz is the 60th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Franz a male or female name?
Franz 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 Franz mean?
Recorded meaning: Surname from the given name Franz; 15,833 bearers.
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About this data

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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, “Franz” — the 60th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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