Francisca
Francisca is a girl's name that peaked in 1928, when it was the 487th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,957th. About 7,900 Franciscas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Francisca boys named Francisca
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,643
- Estimated living today
- 7,900
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1928
- Best rank
- 487th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,957th
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 12,582 / 61
How old the living Franciscas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,643 babies given the name since 1882, about 7,900 are alive — 62 in every hundred. Roughly 920 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Portuguese, Spanish, from Latin
From pt, es Francisca, from Latin Francisca.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Franciscas
- Princess Francisca of Brazil (1824–1898)Princess of Brazil
- Francisca Crovetto (born 1990)Olympic skeet shooter
- Francisca Nazareth (born 2002)Portuguese association football player
- Francisca Ordega (born 1993)Nigerian footballer
- Francisca Aguirre (1930–2019)Spanish poet and writer
- Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal (1736–1813)Portuguese infanta
- Francisca Oteng-Mensah (born 1993)Ghanaian politician and businesswoman
- Francisca Nneka Okeke (born 1968)Nigerian physicist
People named Francisca with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Francisca is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Francisca is most concentrated in Texas (7.5×), Arizona (6.1×), California (2.5×), New Mexico (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1928
The most popular girls’ names the year Francisca peaked:
Francisca elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal girls | Francisca | 5,530 name registrations | 9th |
| France girls | Francisca | 2,230 | 346th |
| Switzerland girls | Francisca | 236 | 424th |
| England and Wales girls | Francisca | 204 | 2,073rd |
| Belgium girls | Francisca | 19 | 1,013th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Francisca: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Francisca | 111 | 0.009% | 482nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Francisca | 115 | 0.026% | 223rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Francisca | 9 | 0.014% | 122nd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Francisca | 1 | 0.027% | 8th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Francisca is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.04% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Francisca among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Francisca | 16,225 | 80,261 |
| the Netherlands boys | Francisca | — | 870 |
| Finland girls | Francisca | 19 | 43 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 80,261 who carry it, 16,225 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Francisca lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 180,314 women called Francisca were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaén | Francisca | 6,814 | 21.827 | 5 |
| Córdoba | Francisca | 7,444 | 18.835 | 6 |
| Balears, Illes | Francisca | 10,966 | 17.485 | 5 |
| Cádiz | Francisca | 10,167 | 15.866 | 8 |
| Granada | Francisca | 6,455 | 13.424 | 5 |
| Málaga | Francisca | 12,141 | 13.247 | 6 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Francisca against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.