girls:
954 births since 1916
#4762 (17th percentile)
boys:
140k births since 1880
#238 (95th percentile)
overall:
141k births since 1880
#527 (93rd percentile)
The name Francisco is the #527 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 140,953 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #238 (94.8% percentile) for all time with 139,999 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,762 (16.7% percentile) for all time with 954 births since 1916.
Francisco has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls).
The name Francisco has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Francisco reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 85.4% percentile (ranked #113) with 1,363 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 1,435 births per million (ranked 84.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1997, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Francisco ranks #283 for boys (69.0% percentile) with 612 births per million, which is 42.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Francisco reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #761) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Francisco".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Francisco. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.5% confident that Francisco is pronounced as fran-SIH-skoh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FRAN-sih-skoh, at 31.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like F R AE0 N S IH1 S K OW0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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