Francesca
The girl's name Francesca has been in the national records since 1895, with 35,364 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 307th. About 34,000 Francescas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Francesca boys named Francesca
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 35,364
- Estimated living today
- 34,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 307th
- Rank in 2025
- 307th
- First recorded
- 1895
- Girls / boys
- 35,331 / 33
How old the living Francescas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 35,364 babies given the name since 1895, about 34,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Italian
Borrowed from Italian Francesca (“Frances”), the feminine form of Francesco (“Francis”), from Latin Franciscus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Francescas
- Francesca Schiavone (born 1980)Italian tennis player
- Francesca Albanese (born 1977)Italian lawyer and academic (born 1977), independent United Nations human rights expert
- Francesca Michielin (born 1995)Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
- Francesca Caccini (born 1587)Italian composer
- Francesca da Rimini (1259–1285)Italian noble woman
- Francesca Neri (born 1964)Italian actress
- Francesca Lollobrigida (born 1991)Italian ice speed skater and roller speed skater
- Francesca Woodman (1958–1981)American photographer
People named Francesca with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Francesca is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Francesca is most concentrated in New Jersey (3.0×), New York (2.5×), Connecticut (2.3×), Florida (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Francesca peaked:
Francesca elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Francesca | 94,780 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Francesca | 19,186 | 53rd |
| France girls | Francesca | 3,590 | 577th |
| Scotland girls | Francesca | 940 | 160th |
| Italy boys | Francesca | 524 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Francesca | 519 | 176th |
| Ireland girls | Francesca | 418 | 286th |
| Belgium girls | Francesca | 319 | 440th |
| Poland girls | Francesca | 218 birth registrations | 264th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Francesca | 181 | 155th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Francesca: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Francesca | 318 | 0.026% | 174th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Francesca | 74 | 0.017% | 251st |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Francesca | 126 | 0.193% | 17th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Francesca | 1 | 0.027% | 6th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Francesca is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.19% of children were given it – 122 of them.
Francesca: rank by region
In 2022, Francesca was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Francesca | 494 | 5 |
In 2024, Francesca was among the 10 most common names in 3 regions of Italy. It has come first somewhere in 18 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molise | Francesca | 2 | 17 |
| Basilicata | Francesca | 4 | 30 |
| Calabria | Francesca | 10 | 78 |
In 2024, Francesca was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Francesca | 334 | 2 |
| Podkarpackie | Francesca | 154 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Francesca | 249 | 2 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Francesca appears in the lists for Sud (10th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Francesca by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 7 | 398th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Francesca among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Francesca | 54 | 188 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Francesca lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 5,056 women called Francesca were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Francesca | 463 | 1.118 | 146 |
| Balears, Illes | Francesca | 630 | 1.005 | 144 |
| Lleida | Francesca | 207 | 0.929 | 167 |
| Barcelona | Francesca | 1,863 | 0.612 | 227 |
| Tarragona | Francesca | 248 | 0.567 | 254 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Francesca | 218 | 0.393 | 308 |
Listed in 33 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 19 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Francesca against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.