Francesco

Popularity, 1880–2025

boys named Francesco

By the numbers

Total US births

8,446

Estimated living today

7,400

Median age today

27

Peak year

2006

Best rank

1,073rd

Rank in 2025

1,328th

First recorded

1906

How old the living Francescos are

born that year still alive today

Of the 8,446 babies given the name since 1906, about 7,400 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 2,400 of them are children and 260 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Francescos

• Francesco Totti (born 1976)Italian association football player
• Francesco Cossiga (1928–2010)8th President of Italy
• Francesco Borromini (1599–1667)Italian architect from Ticino and leading figure in Roman Baroque architecture (1599-1667), sculptor, engineer, stonemason and draughtsman
• Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540)Italian writer, historian and politician
• Francesco Redi (1626–1697)Italian entomologist and poet
• Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700–1771)Italian architect
• Francesco Hayez (1791–1882)Italian painter
• Francesco Toldo (born 1971)Italian association football player

People named Francesco with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Francesco is most common

• NY2,649
• NJ844
• CA575
• IL520
• FL423
• PA423
• MA344
• MI181
• CT166
• TX88

Relative to how many babies each state records, Francesco is most concentrated in New York (5.4×), New Jersey (4.8×), Connecticut (2.4×), Massachusetts (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2006

The most popular boys’ names the year Francesco peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Joshua
• Ethan
• Matthew
• Daniel

All the names of 2006

Francesco elsewhere

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.

Francesco: births by region

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, Francesco is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.52% of children were given it – 325 of them.

Francesco: rank by region

In 2025, Francesco was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Francesco was among the 10 most common names in 11 regions of Italy, and first in 3 of them. It has come first somewhere in 26 different years.

In 2024, Francesco was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Francesco appears in the lists for Sud (1st), Isole (5th) and Centro (10th).

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Francesco appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (153rd).

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.

Francesco by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Francesco 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.

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 Francesco lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 3,127 men called Francesco were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 35 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 17 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

• Frank
• Frances
• Francis
• Francisco
• Franklin
• Frankie
• Francine
• Francesca
• Francisca
• Franco
• Franklyn
• Fran

Francesco against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Francesco vs Frank
• Francesco vs Frances
• Francesco vs Francis
• Francesco vs Francisco
• Francesco vs Franklin
• Francesco vs Frankie

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