Franciscus
The boy's name Franciscus has been in the national records since 1993, with 5 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1993. About 5 Franciscuses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Franciscus
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5
- Estimated living today
- 5
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 8,700th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1993
Notable Franciscuss
- Franciscus Donders (1818–1889)Dutch ophthalmologist
- Franciscus Sylvius (1614–1672)Dutch physician and chemist of Leyden, Netherlands
- Franciscus Gomarus (1563–1641)Dutch theologian
- Franciscus Junius (1545–1602)Huguenot theologian
- Franciscus Bossinensis (1485–1535)Italian composer
- Franciscus Raphelengius (1539–1597)Flemish orientalist, text editor, printer, professor
- Franciscus Junius (1591–1677)philologist
- Franciscus van den Enden (1602–1674)Flemish Jesuit, Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer, philosopher and teacher of Baruch de Spinoza
People named Franciscus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1993
The most popular boys’ names the year Franciscus peaked:
Franciscus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Franciscus | 56,581 | 167,807 |
| the Netherlands girls | Franciscus | 13 | 2,736 |
| Finland boys | Franciscus | — | 15 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 2,736 who carry it, 13 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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.
Related names
Franciscus against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.