Francis

English

Etymology

From Latin Franciscus (“French(man)”) (from Francia 'France', from the Germanic tribal name of the Franks, meaning frank, free), originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

Proper noun

Francis

1. A male given name
   • ~1591 William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: Act V, Scene III:

     Saint Francis be my speed! how oft tonight / Have my old feet stumbled at graves!

   • 1820 Leigh Hunt, Names, The Indicator, No. XVIII, February 9th, 1820:

     Francis is one of the pleasantest names in use. It has a fine open air with it, - a sound correspondent to its sense.

2. A female given name, a rare spelling variant of Frances.
3. A patronymic surname.

Related terms

• Frances
• Frank
• Frauncis

Translations

male given name

• Albanian: Françesk (sq) m
• Arabic: فرنسيس (ar)
• Armenian: Ֆրանցիսկոս (hy) (Francʿiskos) 
• Basque: Frantzizko (eu), Patxi (eu)
• Breton: Frañsez (br)
• Bulgarian: Франциск (bg) (Francisk)
• Catalan: Francesc (ca), (used only as equivalent to French François) Francés (ca)
• Czech: František (cs) m
• Danish: Frans (da)
• Dutch: Frans (nl), Francis (nl), Franciscus (nl)
• Faroese: Frans (fo) m, Frank (fo) m
• Finnish: Frans (fi), Ransu (fi)
• French: François (fr), Francis (fr)
• Galician: Francisco (gl)
• German: Franz (de), Franziskus (de)
• Greek: Φραγκίσκος (el) (Fragkískos)
• Hawaiian: Palakiko
• Hungarian: Ferenc (hu)
• Icelandic: Frans (is)
• Irish: Proinsias (ga)
• Italian: Francesco (it)

• Konkani: Frask, Forso
• Latin: Franciscus (la)
• Latvian: Francis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: Pranciškus (lt)
• Maltese: Franġisk (mt), Frans (mt)
• Manx: Frank (gv) m
• Norwegian: Frans (no)
• Polish: Franciszek (pl)
• Portuguese: Francisco (pt)
• Romanian: Francisc (ro)
• Russian: Франциск (ru) (Francisk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Фрањо (sh)

  Roman: Franjo (sh)

• Slovak: František (sk) m
• Slovene: Frančišek (sl)
• Spanish: Francisco (es), Paco (es)
• Swedish: Frans (sv)
• Ukrainian: Франциск (uk) (Francysk)
• Welsh: Ffransis (cy)

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Dutch

Etymology

Latin Franciscus, originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

Proper noun

Francis m

1. A male given name.

Related terms

• Frans

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French

Etymology

Latin Franciscus (“French(man)”) (from Francia 'France', from the Germanic tribal name of the Franks, meaning frank, free), originally a nickname of St. Francis of Assisi.

Proper noun

Francis

1. A male given name, variant of François.

Related terms

• François

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Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1522. From Latin Franciscus. Corresponding to English Francis.

Proper noun

Francis m

1. A male given name.

Related terms

• Franciska

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Francis was the only given name of 536 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.