Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese version of the Latin name Franciscus. This name translates to ‘Frenchman’ and was used by the Romans to describe the Franks, a Germanic tribe.
Francisco is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Francisco 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, Francisco ranks 249. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 8 were named Francisco. In the entire USA, approximately 134,928 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Francisco. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese version of the Latin name Franciscus. This name translates to ‘Frenchman’ and was used by the Romans to describe the Franks, a Germanic tribe.
Pancho is... a common nickname for people with the name Francisco.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Francisco annualy. This means that there have been boys named Francisco who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Francisco have consistently been special. The name became especially popular in the last quarter of the last century and there was one year in particular when parents of Generation X and Generation Y rather came up with the idea of naming their child Francisco: in 1991, it holds its present record of #111 in the ranking of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Francisco was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Francisco has never been ranked higher than #111. In 2022, he rivaled the 277 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 1,172 boys named Francisco were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Francisco were born, there have been 2,936 newborns who received this name.
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 nine letters, the name Francisco is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Francisco 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 Francisco, you can simply say:
Fox
Rocket
Apple
Nut
Cat
Igloo
Sun
Cat
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Francisco
Francisco
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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C
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S
C
O
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.
F
R
A
N
C
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S
C
O
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. Francisco sounds like this:
