Francisco
About 143,146 American babies have been named Francisco since 1880, most of them around 1993. In 2025 it ranked 322nd. About 123,000 Franciscos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Francisco boys named Francisco
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 143,146
- Estimated living today
- 123,000
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 119th
- Rank in 2025
- 322nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 954 / 142,192
How old the living Franciscos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 143,146 babies given the name since 1880, about 123,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 26,000 of them are children and 8,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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 Spanish, Portuguese
From Latin Franciscus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Franciscos
- Francisco Goya (1746–1828)Spanish painter and printmaker
- Francisco Franco (1892–1975)Spanish general and dictator
- Francisco Pizarro (1478–1541)Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
- Francisco Quevedo (1584–1645)Spanish writer
- Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664)Spanish painter
- Francisco I. Madero (1873–1913)Mexican revolutionary leader and president
- Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko (1924–1979)Equatoguinean politician, 1st and former President of Equatorial Guinea
- Francisco Suárez (1548–1617)Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian
People named Francisco with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Francisco is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Francisco is most concentrated in Arizona (5.1×), New Mexico (3.6×), Texas (3.5×), California (3.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular boys’ names the year Francisco peaked:
Francisco elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Francisco | 25,932 | 26th |
| Portugal boys | Francisco | 11,624 name registrations | 1st |
| France boys | Francisco | 7,540 | 120th |
| England and Wales boys | Francisco | 696 | 743rd |
| Switzerland boys | Francisco | 548 | 256th |
| Norway boys | Francisco | 278 | 348th |
| Belgium boys | Francisco | 106 | 926th |
| Poland boys | Francisco | 53 birth registrations | 389th |
| Ireland boys | Francisco | 29 | 448th |
| France girls | Francisco | 5 | 1,948th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Francisco | 3 | 299th |
| Scotland boys | Francisco | 3 | 711th |
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.
Francisco: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Francisco | 244 | 0.020% | 337th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Francisco | 290 | 0.067% | 108th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Francisco | 7 | 0.011% | 116th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Francisco | 7 | 0.188% | 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, Francisco is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.07% of children were given it – 117 of them.
Francisco: rank by region
In 2020, Francisco was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Francisco | 311 | 5 |
In 2004, Francisco was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Región de Murcia | Francisco | 8 | 182 |
In 2023, Francisco was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Francisco | 325 | 2 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Francisco appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (311th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Francisco by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 5 | 537th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Francisco 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Francisco | 76 | 168 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Francisco lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 426,675 men called Francisco were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Córdoba | Francisco | 17,880 | 47.310 | 4 |
| Jaén | Francisco | 13,064 | 42.699 | 3 |
| Granada | Francisco | 15,534 | 33.410 | 4 |
| Almería | Francisco | 12,339 | 31.370 | 2 |
| Badajoz | Francisco | 10,265 | 31.278 | 3 |
| Cádiz | Francisco | 19,362 | 31.198 | 3 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Francisco 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.