Francesca

“The Frenchwoman” — Latin via Italian origin

Girl's name · #307 in the US (2025) · Trending

Francesca has appeared in US records since 1895 — best rank #307 (2025) · 35,331 babies named Francesca all-time · 1 in 1,600 girls born in 2025.

Around the world: about 1 in 580 girls in England & Wales (2025) · about 1 in 770 girls in New Zealand (2025) · about 1 in 850 girls in Scotland (2025).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 35 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Francescas

Francesca Schiavone — Italian tennis player
Francesca Albanese — Italian lawyer and academic (born 1977), independent United Nations human rights expert
Francesca Michielin — Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1995-)
Francesca Caccini — Italian composer
Francesca da Rimini — Italian noble woman

In stories & tradition

Francesca Findabair — The Witcher · Time of Contempt
Francesca Colby — The Colbys
Francesca Lucchini — Strike Witches · Strike Witches 2

What Francescas become

Among 1,432 notable people named Francesca:

Scientists & scholars appear 1.76× more often than among typical names — e.g. Francesca Gargallo, Italian-Mexican feminist writer and historian of ideas (1956–2022).

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