Francis is the English form of the Latin name Franciscus meaning ‘Frenchman’. The Germanic tribe of the Franks settled in the regions now called France, Belgium and the Netherlands in the 3rd and 4th century.
Francis is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
The name Francis isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Francis ranks 459. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Francis. In the entire USA, approximately 289,646 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Francis. That is 0.09 % of all living Americans.
Francis is the English form of the Latin name Franciscus meaning ‘Frenchman’. The Germanic tribe of the Franks settled in the regions now called France, Belgium and the Netherlands in the 3rd and 4th century.
Frances is a ... popular feminine spelling. There is a popular mnemonic for this name: 'i for him and e for her'.
Francis is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Francis. This means that several boys named Francis have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Francis has reached its best rank of #26 multiple times, most recently in 1918. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Francis one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Francis was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Francis will be Francis. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Francis in 2022 – in fact 728 to be precise, confirming Francis as is still a very popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #406 among all boys‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2009, when only 413 baby boys were named Francis.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Francis is one of them. However, Francis is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Massachusetts seem to particularly fancy this name – the 28,817 men called Francis who live here are 0,703% of all male residents and push their name up to #30 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Massachusetts. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 289,646 people with the name Francis. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Francis on position 131 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an F. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Francis has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual boys' names with F are really popular, the most common currently being Frank.
If your name is Francis and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Francis, you can simply say:
Fox
Rocket
Apple
Nut
Cat
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Francis
Francis
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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R
A
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C
I
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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R
A
N
C
I
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Francis sounds like this:
