Franciscus

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Latinised form of Franko: Latin franciscus = 'Frank, Frenchman' [1] [2] [3] [4]

2) Latinised form of Francesco [5] [6]

See also -us

Related Names

Francisco
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Spanish/Portuguese
Franciscus
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Franciskus
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Swedish
Fransisco
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Spanish/Portuguese
Franziskus
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Swedish

See also:
Female forms: Francisca
Short forms: Francis, Franz, Paco
Variant forms: François (French), Franjo (South Slavic), Franciszek (Polish)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Franciscus
Genitive: Franciscus'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Franciscus
Genitive: Franciscuksen
Partitive: Franciscusta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Franciscus
Genitive: Franciscus'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Franciscus
Genitive: Franciscus' / Franciscus

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

4 October

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

4 October

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 19 people were named Franciscus (percentage of first or only given name: 53 %) [7]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
43 155 0 2 43 153
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
89 0 0
n.a.
89
Denmark Denmark[10]
27
n.a.
0
n.a.
27
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
21
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
21
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Franciscus.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  6. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/