FRANCISCO  

Gender: M
Origin: Spanish and Portuguese variation of FRANCIS
Meaning: "Frenchman or free man"

Popularity in 2008: #172

A little less appealing than some of the other Latinate names, perhaps because of the San Francisco connection.

Francisco is being discussed in our message boards:

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