# Franciscus (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/franciscus/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Franciscus.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | 9,199 |

## People named Franciscus

- Franciscus Donders, Dutch ophthalmologist (1818-1889)
- Franciscus Sylvius, Dutch physician and chemist of Leyden, Netherlands
- Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (1563-1641)
- Franciscus van den Enden, Flemish Jesuit, Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer, philosopher and teacher of Baruch d
- Franciscus Kopong Kung, 21st-century Indonesian Catholic bishop
- Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, Flemish alchemist and writer
- Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician (born 1961)
- Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician (1931–2010)
- Cas Janssens, Dutch footballer (1944–2024)
- A.F.Th. van der Heijden, Dutch author (born 1951)
- Jan Frans Vonck, Flemish/Belgian lawyer (1743-1792)
- F B J Kuiper, Dutch linguist (1907–2003)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.