Girl name origins & meanings
- Latin : Free
- Place name : From France; form of Frances
Family name origins & meanings
- French : from a Germanic personal name derived from the ethnic name for a Frank.
- French : nickname or status name from franc ‘free’ (usually denoting a freed slave).
- Slovenian and Croatian (northwestern Croatia) : from the personal name Franc, Slavic form of German Franz, all from Latin Franciscus (see Francis).
- Polish, Czech, and Slovak : from the German personal name Franz.