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Franciska

Girls' name

From Latin Francisca; literal meaning unconfirmed

Franciska has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1965. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Franciska, 2004

1 in 637,000

Franciska over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Franciska: meaning, origin, and history

From Latin Francisca; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Franciska means

Franciska is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Franciska is used in Hungarian.

Franciska comes through Latin Francisca.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Franciska is pronounced [ˈfrɒnt͡siʃkɒ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Franciska between 1965 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2004; its best national rank was #6,837 in 1965.

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 Franciska?

Franciska had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 306,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,326 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Franciska sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 441,326 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Franciska. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Franciskas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Franciska was born before 1992 — so the typical Franciska is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Franciska 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (6)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,837
1965

Spellings of Franciska

Franciska is not the most common spelling — Francesca is, with 42.5% against Franciska's 0.02%.

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.

Franciska around the world

Where Franciska 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.

  • France
    1922–2002
    #5,363
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1957–1982
    #670
    in 1982

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Franciska by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,837
1965
Peak year
2004
6 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Franciska

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

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Sibling names for Franciska

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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