František
Barely over a hundred Polish men carry it, so most people here will never meet one. The name is Latin at root, meaning "free man" or, read another way, "Frenchman".
František Pronunciation
František is pronounced frahn-TEE-šek (/franˈtišɛk/).
What František means
Where František comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
František begins in Latin, in the word Franciscus, meaning "the Frenchman." The Franks gave their name to France, and the word pointed first at a person from that land, or of that people.
The sense of "free man" attached itself later. The Franks held a free, privileged status in early medieval Europe, and frank came to mean free. The name gathered a meaning it did not begin with.
The name traveled on Saint Francis of Assisi, baptized Giovanni and called Francesco, a byname tied to his father's French cloth trade. Poland took it as Franciszek, with Czech and Slovak keeping František close beside.
Shorten it and a boy becomes Franek on the class register, the form he answers to. The cross-gender pair is Franciszka.
How many people are named František
1 in 188904 men in Poland is named František. 113 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3197 among male names.
František's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
František as a middle name
František is a first name for 113 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 94/6 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3862nd, between Foster (7) and Franziskus (7).
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#3860 Floris7
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#3861 Foster7
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#3862 František7
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#3863 Franziskus7
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#3864 Fuat7