Francesco

Where Francesco comes from

Borrowed from Italian Francesco.
— Wiktionary's entry for Francesco
  • Italian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,111 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1908
    Peak, #744
    13 babies named Francesco — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1909
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1928
    Francesco Cossiga born
    8th President of Italy
  5. 1976
    Francesco Totti born
    Italian association football player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Francis
Namesakes
  • Francesco Totti · Italian association football player, born 1976
  • Francesco Cossiga · 8th President of Italy, 1928–2010
  • Francesco Borromini · Italian architect from Ticino and leading figure in Roman Baroque architecture (1599-1667), sculptor, engineer, stonemason and draughtsman, 1599–1667
  • Francesco Guicciardini · Italian writer, historian and politician, 1483–1540
  • Francesco Hayez · Italian painter, 1791–1881

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.