Francine
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Diminutive of France/François, from Latin Francus ‘Frank, free man’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɹænsin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Francine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Madagascar it is the 91st most common given name.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.2K
- CACanada≈1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Diminutive of France/François, from Latin Francus ‘Frank, free man’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Francine, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Francine counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Francine | 10 |
| FR France | #336 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 93K | Francine | 305 |
| US United States | — | 29,531 | 1 in 11K | 29K | Francine | 298 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #228 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Francine | 22 |
| BR Brazil | #872 | 23,232 | 1 in 9.1K | 24K | Francine | 144 |
| CM Cameroon | #197 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Francine | 25 |
| MG Madagascar | #91 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Francine | 18 |
| CA Canada | #571 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 9 | Francine | 167 |
| BE Belgium | #177 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Francine | 81 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Francine 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.
From a French diminutive pet form of Francoise, the French form of OFrances. Variants: Francene, Franceen.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Diminutif de Françoise, latin Franciscus « franc, libre ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Forme dérivée française de Françoise, devenue populaire surtout dans les années 1950.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
2 Pet form of FRANGOISE. Frédéric 3 From German. See Friedrich in German supplement and Frederick in main dictionary. Feminine form: Frédérique. G
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
French and English: diminutive pet form of Françoise (see FRANÇOIS ). Variants: English: Francene, Franceen .
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francine Yorkb. 1936USAmerican actress, showgirl (1936–2017)
- Francine Bergéb. 1938FRFrench actress
- Nathalie Delonb. 1941FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress and director (1941–2021)
- Francine Racetteb. 1947CACanadian actress
- Francine Riversb. 1947USAmerican writer
- Francine Proseb. 1947USAmerican writer (born 1947)
- Francine Shapirob. 1948USAmerican psychologist (1948–2019)
- Fran Drescherb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Agnès Buzynb. 1962FRnot in their usual nameFrench hematologist and politician
- Francine Niyonsabab. 1993BIBurundian distance runner
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 74 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2014 | 93K | #2,917 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 29K | #1,263 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 24K | #1,234 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 23K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23K | #965 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 490 | #965 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 245 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 108 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 43 | #1,263 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 21 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 9 | #474 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 5 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Francine?
- In the etymology graph, Frances, Francisca and Fanny are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Françoise.
- Is Francine a male or female name?
- Francine 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 Francine mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutive of France/François, from Latin Francus ‘Frank, free man’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Francine?
- A machine transcription gives /fɹænsin/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Francine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 thousand people named Francine in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled francine.
- How common is the name Francine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,531 people named Francine in 2020, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Francine compared with other names?
- In Madagascar, Francine is the 91st most common given name of 2,842 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Francine?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/francineThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Francine” — the 91st most common given name in Madagascar. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.