Franziska
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Franziska is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ) Francisca: im 16. Jh.
- ATAustria1 in 712◐
- DEGermany1 in 828
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.5K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 235 ●
- 1 in 14K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
149K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
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●
) Francisca: im 16. Jh. auf gekommener weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #184 | 146,464 | 128K rec. | — | 13 | Franziska | 235 |
| AT Austria | #144 | 23,249 | 2.5K rec. | — | 6.2K | Franziska | 109 |
| CH Switzerland | #104 | 5,927 | 3.1K rec. | — | — | Franziska | 105 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,368 | 1.2K rec. | — | 1 | Franziska | 66 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,087 | 798 rec. | — | listed | Franziska | 71 |
| US United States | — | 875 | 6.9K rec. | 1 in 380K | 875 | Franziska | 183 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 566△ | 240 rec. | 1 in 31K | 566 | Franziska | 37 |
| SE Sweden | — | 431△ | 87 rec. | 1 in 24K | 431 | Franziska | 24 |
| NO Norway | — | 406 | 80 rec. | — | 386 | Franziska | 22 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 321 | 362 rec. | — | — | Franziska | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | 283 | 288 rec. | — | — | Franziska | 21 |
| DK Denmark | — | 157△ | 72 rec. | 1 in 37K | 157 | Franziska | 31 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German182K89%
- English7.6K4%
- Spanish1.7K1%
- Finnish1.7K1%
- French1.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 182,102 | 89% |
| English | 7,559 | 4% |
| Spanish | 1,667 | 1% |
| Finnish | 1,657 | 1% |
| French | 1,649 | 1% |
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●
Franziska is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Feminine form of FRANZ.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Basque, Francisca, hacha u hoz. Gure franziska edo aizkorea zeiñ zorrotza dan . Ag AL 160s.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1984 | 60 |
| 1985 | 104 |
| 1986 | 114 |
| 1987 | 161 |
| 1988 | 139 |
| 1989 | 121 |
| 1990 | 109 |
| 1991 | 118 |
| 1992 | 129 |
| 1993 | 127 |
| 1994 | 150 |
| 1995 | 159 |
| 1996 | 187 |
| 1997 | 187 |
| 1998 | 165 |
| 1999 | 147 |
| 2000 | 125 |
| 2001 | 127 |
| 2002 | 129 |
| 2003 | 144 |
| 2004 | 135 |
| 2005 | 137 |
| 2006 | 132 |
| 2007 | 135 |
| 2008 | 157 |
| 2009 | 158 |
| 2010 | 173 |
| 2011 | 141 |
| 2012 | 171 |
| 2013 | 174 |
| 2014 | 185 |
| 2015 | 204 |
| 2016 | 218 |
| 2017 | 207 |
| 2018 | 182 |
| 2019 | 176 |
| 2020 | 178 |
| 2021 | 216 |
| 2022 | 173 |
| 2023 | 142 |
| 2024 | 146 |
AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 41 years between 1984–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburgb. 1675DEnot in their usual nameGerman princess (1675-1733)
- Maria Amalia of Saxonyb. 1724ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain (1724-1760)
- Maria Christina von Sachsenb. 1735PLnot in their usual namePrincess of Saxony and an Abbess (1735-1782)
- Fanny Elsslerb. 1810ATnot in their usual nameAustrian ballerina (1810-1884)
- Marie of Prussiab. 1825DEnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Bavaria; youngest child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg
- Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháryb. 1848DEnot in their usual namePrincess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Angela Hitlerb. 1883ATnot in their usual nameelder half-sister of Adolf Hitler (1883-1949)
- Archduchess Adelheid of Austriab. 1914ATnot in their usual nameArchduchess of Austria (1914–1971)
- Franziska Giffeyb. 1978DEGerman politician, former Mayor of Berlin
- Franziska van Almsickb. 1978DEGerman swimmer
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 50 sources across 28 countries.
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 · 227 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Franziska?
- We estimate roughly 2.5 thousand people bear Franziska (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Franziska have the most bearers?
- Franziska is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled franziska.
- How common is Franziska compared with other names?
- In Germany, Franziska is the 184th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Franziska a male or female name?
- Franziska 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 Franziska mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Francisca: im 16. Jh.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Franziska” — the 184th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.