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Francesco

#1,329 in 2025Boys' name

Javelin, through Francesco

Francesco has been given to 8,446 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #1,329 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 166 recorded.

Babies named Francesco, 2025

1 in 22,900

Francesco over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Francesco: meaning, origin, and history

Javelin, through Francesco

Italian and Latin

What Francesco means

Francesco belongs to the name family reached through Francesco → Francesco. Its meaning is “javelin”.

Origin, language, and formation

Francesco is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Italian and Latin.

Francesco comes through Italian Francesco.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Francis and Francesco.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Francesco is pronounced /fɹænˈtʃɛskoʊ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,446 boys were recorded with the name Francesco between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 166 in 2006; its best national rank was #760 in 1908.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,338 in 2020 to #1,329 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,343 in 2015 to #1,329 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Francesco?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,900
145 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,329
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,849 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Francesco sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,849 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Francesco. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Francescos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Francesco was born before 1995 — so the typical Francesco is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,762
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Choose a decade

2000s — 17.5% of all recorded uses (1,478).

Is Francesco rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−87
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+9
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+14
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.3%
Peak was 2006 (166)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#760
1908

Spellings of Francesco

Francesco is not the most common spelling — Francisco is, with 89.6% against Francesco's 5.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Francesco is used

Across 2016–2025, Francesco was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 2,857 boys, against 1 in 9,299 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).

235 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 2,857
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 3,030
  3. 3Connecticut1 in 3,226
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 5,263
  5. 5Florida1 in 6,250
  6. 6Illinois1 in 7,692
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  8. 8California1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Francesco around the world

Where Francesco ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #873
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    1976–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1909–2025
    #1,680
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #641
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #317
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Francesco

People whose public names include Francesco, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Francesco in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Francesco. Linked forms have their own page here.

FranPacoFrankFransFranzFerencFranckFrancoFrankoFrantzFrancisFrancescFranciscFranklinFranciscoFranciscusFranciszekFañchFränkFrancésFrañsezPaquitoFrançoisRansisku

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Francesco by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,329
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 9
Best rank ever
#760
1908
Peak year
2006
166 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,446
Count in 2025
145

Names similar to Francesco

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

FransiscoFranciscoFranklynFrancesFrancoisFrancoFrazierFrankieFrankyFranchescoFranklinFraniscoFranzFrantzFransicoFranciszekFrancisoFraserFrancisFraciscoFrankoFranchotFrasierRosco

Names with a curve like Francesco

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Francesco, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LazaroAndreasRamseyGiuseppeCristobalMarcellBernardoPauloEfrenMauroTyrusAbdul

Sibling names for Francesco

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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