Francisco
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish form of Francis; from France or 'free'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Francisco is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 79(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 117
- BRBrazil1 in 127
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #69 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 521 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79 (inferred from the name graph)
1,665,494 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fräncïscö in DO Dominican Republic.
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)
Spanish form of Francis; from France or 'free'.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Francisco 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #8 | 1,665,494 | 1 in 127 | 1.8M | Francisco | 249 |
| ES Spain | #6 | 426,675 | 1 in 117 | 457K | Francisco | 314 |
| AR Argentina | #37 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 183 | 2.8K | Francisco | 203 |
| US United States | #359 | 246,232 | 1 in 1.4K | 245K | Francisco | 521 |
| PH Philippines | #64 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 473 | — | Francisco | 146 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 116 | 31K | Fräncïscö | 107 |
| NI Nicaragua | #7 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 79 | — | Francisco | 90 |
| SV El Salvador | #16 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 135 | — | Francisco | 108 |
1,665,494 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual). 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)
Francisco 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.
Spanish form of Italian Francesco. See (Francis in main dictionary. Feminine form: Francisca.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A moon in Uranus, Solar System.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, forma italiana de Franciscus; muito raro como sobrenome
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Swedish, Francisco och Francesco är italienska, portugisiska och spanska former av latinets Franciscus (→ Frans). En känd namnbärare är Franciscus, påve 2013–2025.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Libre
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Francisco de Almeidab. 1450PTPortuguese nobleman and soldier
- Francisco Pizarrob. 1478ESSpanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
- Frantzisko Xabierkoab. 1506ESnot in their usual nameSpanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)
- Francisco Goyab. 1746ESSpanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
- José de San Martínb. 1778ARnot in their usual nameArgentine general and independence leader (1778–1850)
- Alfonso XII of Spainb. 1857ESnot in their usual nameking of Spain from 1874 to 1885
- Francisco Francob. 1892ESSpanish general and dictator (1892-1975)
- Francisco Varallob. 1910ARArgentine footballer (1910-2010)
- Francisco Macías Nguema Biyokob. 1924GQEquatoguinean politician, 1st and former President of Equatorial Guinea (1924-1979)
- Paco Tousb. 1964ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
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(measured from records)
Attested in 127 sources across 60 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.8M | #26 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 1.8M | #4 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.7M | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7M | #6 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 457K | #4 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 427K | #6 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 245K | #226 |
| DO Dominican Republic | JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual) | 2025 | 31K | #6 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 25K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.3K | #6 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2.1K | #62 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 1.8K | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
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 does the name Francisco mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish form of Francis; from France or 'free'. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Francisco?
- In the etymology graph, Frank, Francesco and Franz are forms of the same name in other languages; Paco and Paquito are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Francisco a male or female name?
- Francisco 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.
- In which country does Francisco have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.7 million people named Francisco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled francisco.
- How common is the name Francisco?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,665,494 people named Francisco in 2022, about 1 in 127 residents.
- How common is Francisco compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Francisco is the 8th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Francisco?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/franciscoThe 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, “Francisco” — the 8th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.