Name: Francesca
Gender: Female
Usage: Francesca, of latin origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Francesca are in general originating from Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Francesca across the world, see Francesco.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Francesca is: Free.
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Numerology of the first name Francesca: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Francesca is ranked on the 1,317th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 359200 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.005% of the population. The name Francesca has nine characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Francesca for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Francesca is 4 October.
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History and Origin
Francesca is a female given name, derived from the Latin male name Franciscus meaning 'free'. It is widely used in most Romance languages, including Italian, French and Catalan, and place of origin is Italy. It is derived from the same source as the female name Frances, and the male names Francesc, Francesco and Francis.
Italian: feminine form of Francesco. Originally a vocabulary word meaning ‘French’, it was bestowed from the 13th century onwards in honour of St Francis of Assisi. It has also been used independently as an English name. Probably its most famous bearer was Francesca di Rimini, daughter of Giovanni da Polenta, Count of Ravenna. A legendary beauty, she was betrothed by her father to the misshapen Giovanni Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, in return for military support. However, when Malatesta's good-looking younger brother, Paolo, acted as proxy in the betrothal, Francesca and he fell in love. They were discovered, and put to death by Malatesta in 1289. Their tragedy is enshrined in the Fifth Canto of Dante's Inferno, as well as in several other works of literature and in a symphonic fantasy by Tchaikovsky.
Cognates: English: Frances. Irish Gaelic: Proinséas. Scottish Gaelic: Frangag. French: Françoise. Spanish, Portuguese: Francisca. German: Franziska. Polish: Franciszka. Czech: Františka.
Pet forms: Spanish: Frascuela, Frasquita. German: Zissi.
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