Franciszek
Franciszek reached its high-water mark in 2017 at number 5,788, and has been recorded 138 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 130 Franciszeks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Franciszek
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 138
- Estimated living today
- 130
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 5,788th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Franciszeks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 138 babies given the name since 1917, about 130 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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.
Notable Franciszeks
- Franciszek Macharski (1927–2016)Polish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Franciszek Smuda (1948–2024)Polish football player and manager
- Franciszek Pieczka (1928–2022)Polish actor
- Franciszek Karpiński (1741–1825)Polish poet
- Franciszek Gągor (1951–2010)Polish general
- Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901–1995)Polish Army officer
- Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745–1807)Polish artist
- Franciszek Kleeberg (1888–1941)Polish general
People named Franciszek with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Franciszek is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Franciszek peaked:
Franciszek elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Franciszek | 98,862 birth registrations | 5th |
| England and Wales boys | Franciszek | 1,520 | 335th |
| Ireland boys | Franciszek | 363 | 182nd |
| Norway boys | Franciszek | 212 | 241st |
| Scotland boys | Franciszek | 157 | 253rd |
| France boys | Franciszek | 145 | 509th |
| Belgium boys | Franciszek | 100 | 837th |
| Switzerland boys | Franciszek | 46 | 1,093rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Franciszek | 33 | 255th |
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.
Franciszek: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Franciszek | 38 | 0.003% | 823rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Franciszek | 8 | 0.002% | 604th |
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.
Franciszek: rank by region
In 2025, Franciszek was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Franciszek | 806 | 6 |
In 2025, Franciszek was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Franciszek | 4 | 300 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Franciszek | 7 | 195 |
| Lubelskie | Franciszek | 5 | 229 |
| Lubuskie | Franciszek | 6 | 101 |
| Łódzkie | Franciszek | 6 | 274 |
| Małopolskie | Franciszek | 6 | 496 |
| Mazowieckie | Franciszek | 5 | 827 |
| Opolskie | Franciszek | 5 | 89 |
| Podkarpackie | Franciszek | 3 | 314 |
| Podlaskie | Franciszek | 6 | 125 |
| Pomorskie | Franciszek | 6 | 276 |
| Śląskie | Franciszek | 5 | 424 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Franciszek | 5 | 147 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Franciszek | 6 | 148 |
| Wielkopolskie | Franciszek | 7 | 448 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Franciszek | 6 | 154 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Franciszek by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 16 | 371st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Franciszek against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.