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Francisca Francisca — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ fran-SEES-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Saint Frances (Spanish + Latin + Frances Cabrini)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "saint frances (spanish + latin + frances cabrini)".

Francisca is from the Spanish + Portuguese Francisca — feminine of Francisco from Latin Franciscus (Frenchman/free man). Francisca is one of the Latin feminine names — central to traditional Catholic heritage.

Saint Frances (Spanish).

The name in its native script.

Francisca
Transliteration
Francisca
Pronunciation
/ frænˈsiːs.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Francisca stands.

Francisca does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Franciscas before her.

Real people
Saint Frances Cabrini / Madre Cabrini
Italian-American Catholic nun + saint + founder of Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 1880 + first United States citizen to be canonized 1946 by Pope Pius XII + patron of immigrants.
1850 – 1917
In fiction
Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui
Mestiza daughter of Francisco Pizarro conquistador of Inca Empire + Inés Huaylas Yupanqui Inca princess.
1534 – 1598

Names connected to Francisca.

The number behind Francisca.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Francisca reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.