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Frances

OriginEnglish from Latin
Meaning"from France; free man"
GenderGirl
US Rank#318

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NB Rank#157

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Famous Francess

  • Frances Elena Farmer

    American actress

  • Frances Ann O'Connor

    Australian actress

  • Saint Frances of Rome

    Italian mystic and oblate

  • Frances Grey

    Duchess of Suffolk, mother of Lady Jane Grey

  • Frances Newton

    Lady Cobham, Lady of the Bedchamber to England's Queen Elizabeth I

  • Frances Radclyffe

    Countess of Sussex, Lady of the Bedchamber to England's Queen Elizabeth I

  • Frances Custis

    daughter of U.S. First Lady Martha Washington and Daniel Custis

  • Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey

    pharmacologist and physician of the FDA who refused to authorize Thalidomide

  • Frances "Fanny" Nelson

    Viscountess Nelson, wife of Admiral Horatio Nelson

  • Frances Elizabeth Cox (1812

    1897), translator of hymn "Jesus Lives!"

  • Frances Ridley Havergal (1836

    1879), hymnist and composer

  • Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston

    U.S. First Lady as wife of President Grover Cleveland

  • Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald

    American journalist, daughter of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Frances Joan Davidson

    Viscountess Davidson , English MP

  • Frances Louise McDormand

    American actress

  • Frances FitzGerald

    American journalist and author

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett

    English children's novelist

  • Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard

    American suffragist

  • Fannie Coralie "Frances" Perkins

    U.S. Secretary of Labor, first woman cabinet member

  • Frances Ethel Gumm

    birth name of American actress Judy Garland

  • Frances Marie Burke

    Miss America 1940

  • Frances Teresa Stewart

    Duchess of Richmond and Lennox aka La Belle Stuart, model of Britannia

  • Frances Anne Vane

    Viscountess Vane, English memoirist

  • Frances Mayes

    American novelist

  • Frances Hardman Conroy

    American actress

  • Frances Black

    Irish singer

  • Frances Burney

    English novelist

  • Eleanor Frances Callier

    American actress

  • Frances Pen "Frankie" Benioff

    daughter of actress Amanda Peet

  • Frances McKee

    Scottish musician of band The Vaselines

  • Frances Hussey Sternhagan

    American actress

  • Diana Frances Spencer

    Princess of Wales

  • Frances Griffiths

    English photographer of the Cottingley Fairies

  • Frances Yip

    Hong Kong pop singer

  • Frances Clementine Suplee (b. 2006)

    daughter of American actor Ethan Suplee

  • Frances "Frankie" Pen Friedman (b. 2007)

    daughter of American actress Amanda Peet

  • Frances Cole Fallon (b. 2014)

    daughter of comedian Jimmy Fallon

  • Frances Harper Wyle (b. 2015)

    daughter of American actor Noah Wyle

  • Frances Bean Cobain

    daughter of musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love

  • Frances Laiz Setta Schenkkan (b. 2016)

    daughter of Brazilian,American actress Morena Baccarin and American actor Ben McKenzie

  • Frances Afifi (b. 2016)

    daughter of actress Sarah Chalke

Frances in pop culture

  • Frances "Frankie

    " character in "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"

  • Frances

    character in "Sonic X"

  • Frances 'Frankie' Addams

    character in "The Member of the Wedding" by Carson McCullers

  • Francis Bonnefoy

    character in "Hetalia"

  • Frances "Franny" Glass

    character in "Franny and Zooey" by J.D. Salinger

  • Frances Halladay

    character in "Frances Ha"

  • Frances "Frankie" Heck

    character on 'The Middle'

  • Frances Hindley

    character in "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte

  • Frances "Baby" Houseman

    character in "Dirty Dancing"

  • Frances Midford

    character in anime Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler

  • Mary Frances "Francie" Nolan

    character in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • Frances "Frankie" Almond Smith

    character in "The Hole" and "After the Hole"

  • Frances "Francie" Stevens

    character in "To Catch A Thief"

  • Frances Waters

    character in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton

  • Bedtime for Frances

    children's book series by Russell Hoban

  • Frances "Frank" Reagan

    character in Blue Bloods

  • Frances "Frankie" Kane aka Magenta

    character in DC Universe

  • Frances

    character in short story "Fostered" by Tina Tirrell

  • Frances "Frankie" Pereira

    character in Blue Valentine

Variations & nicknames

  • FranetteFrench
  • FanchonFrench
  • PaquitaSpanish
  • ZiskaGerman
  • FranciscaSpanish
  • FrankaRussian
  • FrancescaItalian
  • FanyaSlavic
  • ProinséasIrish Gaelic
  • FrancaItalian
  • FranziskaGerman
  • FrancineFrench
  • FrançoiseFrench

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