Franziska
Franziska reached its high-water mark in 2006 at number 9,286, and has been recorded 200 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2018. About 200 Franziskas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Franziska
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 200
- Estimated living today
- 200
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 9,286th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1963
How old the living Franziskas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 200 babies given the name since 1963, about 200 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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 Franziskas
- Franziska van Almsick (born 1978)German swimmer
- Franziska Giffey (born 1978)German politician, former Mayor of Berlin
- Franziska Preuß (born 1994)German biathlete
- Franziska Weber (born 1989)German canoeist
- Franziska Schenk (born 1974)German speed skater
- Franziska Brauße (born 1998)German cyclist
- Franziska Donner (1900–1992)first lady of South Korea
- Franziska zu Reventlow (1871–1918)German writer, artist and translator
People named Franziska with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2006
The most popular girls’ names the year Franziska peaked:
Franziska elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria girls | Franziska | 4,800 | 41st |
| Italy girls | Franziska | 307 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Franziska | 263 | 291st |
| England and Wales girls | Franziska | 19 | 3,594th |
| France girls | Franziska | 15 | 3,530th |
| Poland girls | Franziska | 4 birth registrations | 729th |
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.
Franziska: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Franziska | 260 | 0.021% | 189th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Franziska | 1 | 0.000% | 617th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Franziska | 1 | 0.002% | 152nd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Franziska | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
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, Franziska is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.04% of children were given it – 33 of them.
Franziska by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 3 | 499th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Franziska 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 girls | Franziska | 14 | 64 |
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.
Related names
Franziska 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.