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How popular is the name Francesco?

Births per year, rank history and how many Francescos are alive today.

Francesco (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 873rd in 2025 with 36 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2024, when 65 babies were given the name, the 586th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2016, with 58 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Common short forms of Francesco include Frankie and Franky.

The Francesco you are most likely to meet is around 11 years old. Half of all Francescos born in England and Wales are between 7 and 24, and there are at least 1,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Francesco - on average, only one in every 253 such rooms contains a Francesco.

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Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.