Franciszek
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Francis, Frank
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/frant͡ɕiʂɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Franciszek is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 272(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 711K
- ISIceland1 in 6.9K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 272 (inferred from the name graph)
140,924 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Francis, Frank
Sources 1
- Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Franciszek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #112 | 140,924 | 1 in 272 | 141K | Franciszek | 144 |
| US United States | — | 468 | 1 in 711K | 468 | Franciszek | 94 |
| SE Sweden | — | 384 | 1 in 27K | 384 | — | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 250 | 1 in 22K | 764 | Franciszek | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 376K | 70 | Franciszek | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 86 | 1 in 68K | 86 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 51 | 1 in 6.9K | 51 | — | — |
140,924 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francis of Assisib. 1182ITnot in their usual nameItalian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
- Franciszek Karpińskib. 1741UAPolish poet (1741-1825)
- Frédéric Chopinb. 1810PLnot in their usual namePolish composer and pianist (1810–1849)
- Stan Musialb. 1920USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player (1920-2013)
- Mieczysław Rakowskib. 1926PLnot in their usual nameformer First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (1926–2008)
- Franciszek Macharskib. 1927PLPolish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1927-2016)
- Franciszek Pieczkab. 1928PLPolish actor (1928–2022)
- Franciszek Smudab. 1948PLPolish football player and manager (1948–2024)
- Donald Tuskb. 1957PLnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Poland (2007–2014; since 2023)
- Szymon Hołowniab. 1976PLnot in their usual namePolish politician, journalist and writer (born 1976)
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 43 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Franciszek mean, and where does it come from?
- Francis, Frank Recorded by Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24).
- How do you pronounce Franciszek?
- A machine transcription gives /frant͡ɕiʂɛk/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Franciszek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 141 thousand people named Franciszek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled franciszek.
- Where is Franciszek most common?
- Franciszek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 272 people carrying it.
- Is Franciszek a male or female name?
- Franciszek 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 are other forms of the name Franciszek?
- In the etymology graph, Francisco, Frank and Francesco are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Franciszek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 140,924 people named Franciszek in 2026, about 1 in 272 residents.
- How common is Franciszek compared with other names?
- In Poland, Franciszek is the 112th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/franciszekThe 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, “Franciszek” — the 112th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.