Francois

At the 2020 census, 16,522 Americans bore the surname Francois — 2,132nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,100.

By the numbers

People: 16,522
Rank: 2,132nd
How common: 1 in 18,100
Per 100,000: 5.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Francois described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 77.6%
White, not Hispanic 14.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Francois

Déborah François (born 1987)Belgian actress
Claude François (1939–1978)French pop singer, songwriter and dancer
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755–1809)French chemist
Prince François, Prince of Joinville (1818–1900)Admiral of the French Navy
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719–1785)French general, diplomat and statesman
Hermann von François (1856–1933)German general
Louis François, duc de Boufflers (1644–1711)Marshal of France
Roger François (1900–1949)French weightlifter

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

Surnames like Francois

Also a first name

Francois has been given to 1,823 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 1992. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.