# Franciszek (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/franciszek/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 138 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 138 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,520, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 8,290 |
| 2012 | 5 | 12,881 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7,704 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,173 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,690 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8,363 |
| 2017 | 15 | 5,886 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,013 |
| 2019 | 10 | 7,821 |
| 2020 | 7 | 9,899 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,745 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,316 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,468 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,222 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,642 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 59 | 588 |
| 2012 | 62 | 577 |
| 2013 | 93 | 434 |
| 2014 | 102 | 397 |
| 2015 | 110 | 388 |
| 2016 | 130 | 359 |
| 2017 | 130 | 359 |
| 2018 | 137 | 335 |
| 2019 | 123 | 359 |
| 2020 | 122 | 358 |
| 2021 | 81 | 489 |
| 2022 | 72 | 536 |
| 2023 | 56 | 638 |
| 2024 | 39 | 826 |
| 2025 | 30 | 1,007 |

## People named Franciszek

- Franciszek Ksawery Zachariasiewicz, bishop (1770-1845)
- Franciszek Dachtera, Catholic martyr (1910-1942)
- Mieczysław Rakowski, former First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (1926–2008)
- Stan Musial, American baseball player (1920-2013)
- Andrzej Górak, engineer
- François-Isidore Gagelin, French missionary (1799–1833)
- Francisco de Borbón y Borbón, (1912-1995)
- Maurice de Broglie, French bishop (1766–1821)

## 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.