Francina

Where Francina comes from

Francina hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1707
    Francina Margaretha van Huysum born
    18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands
  2. 1882
    Debut at its peak, #908
    #908 among girls with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1971
    Francina Armengol born
    Spanish politician
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Francina Armengol · Spanish politician, born 1971
  • Francina Margaretha van Huysum · 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands, 1707–1789
  • Francina Louise Schot · Dutch painter, 1816–1894
  • Francina Gunningh Sloet · Dutch cross-dressing woman who served as a soldier, 1792–1814
  • Francina Sorabji · Indian educator, 1833–1910

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.