girls:
12.5k births since 1882
#1404 (75th percentile)
boys:
61 births since 1917
#4525 (1st percentile)
overall:
12.5k births since 1882
#2354 (70th percentile)
The name Francisca is the #2,354 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,523 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 69.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,404 (75.4% percentile) for all time with 12,462 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #4,525 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 61 births since 1917.
Francisca first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for girls and 1917 for boys).
The name Francisca has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Francisca reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 29.9% percentile (ranked #415) with 165 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 166 births per million (ranked 29.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Francisca ranks #895 for girls (5.5% percentile) with 33 births per million, which is 19.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Francisca reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #537) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Francisca".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Francisca. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.4% confident that Francisca is pronounced as fran-SIH-skuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FRAN-sih-skuh, at 39.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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