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DeFranceschi

DeFranceschi, also written De Franceschi. Attested in France, Croatia, Austria, Australia, Switzerland, Czechia, Spain, Hong Kong, Italy, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, United States of America, borne by about 159 people in the registers this map holds.

Also written

A person linked these — Wikidata's «said to be the same as», or a family archive that worked it out from documents.

De Franceschi

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

Defrančeski

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

DafranceschiDe Franceschdi FranceschiDe FrancisciDeFrancesDe Franceski

It is also the name of a place

1 place drawn, the largest being De FranceschiDe Franceschi — 20
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • De Franceschi Italy pop. 20 a spelling of the name

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 13 countries: France, Croatia, Austria, Australia, Switzerland, Czechia, Spain, Hong Kong, Italy, Poland, and 3 moreAustria — attested, not countedAustralia — attested, not countedSwitzerland — attested, not countedCzechia — attested, not countedSpain — attested, not countedHong Kong — attested, not countedItaly — attested, not countedPoland — attested, not countedPuerto Rico — attested, not countedRussia — attested, not countedUnited States of America — attested, not countedCroatia — 13 peopleFrance — 146 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. A hollow ring is attested but not counted — Denmark publishes which surnames exist and not how many carry each, and a family archive finds a name without counting heads. Sizing those by a number nobody published would invent it. Blank is not absence. This draws the 13 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

France

146 Borne — a state counted them — Defranceschi; Fichier des noms de famille 1891–2000 (INSEE, fichier national).

Whose archive to write to
Attested here, and nothing that survives covers those years

DeFranceschi is attested in France in the 1970s. Not one of the 1,513 volumes this atlas holds for France covers those years — worth knowing before an afternoon is spent on France's shelf rather than after.

Croatia

13 Borne — a state counted them — Defranceschi; Names and surnames in the Republic of Croatia, 2011 Population Census (DZS).

Names and surnames in the Republic of Croatia, 2011 Population Census (DZS) answers questions rather than publishing a list. This name was asked about because the atlas already holds it elsewhere — a name absent here may simply never have been asked about, not absent from Croatia.

Whose archive to write to

3,195 of 5,047 volumes held for Croatia overlap the 1800s, 1860s and 1900s — the decades DeFranceschi is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names DeFranceschi. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Civil registration and vital records, Censuses and population lists, Military and wartime. See everything this atlas holds for Croatia →

Austria

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for DeFranceschi in Austria, so it cannot narrow Austria's 19,941 volumes by date — see Austria's own page for all of it.

Australia

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for DeFranceschi in Australia, so it cannot narrow Australia's 1,889 volumes by date — see Australia's own page for all of it.

Switzerland

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for DeFranceschi in Switzerland, so it cannot narrow Switzerland's 4,053 volumes by date — see Switzerland's own page for all of it.

Czechia

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for DeFranceschi in Czechia, so it cannot narrow Czechia's 142,172 volumes by date — see Czechia's own page for all of it.

Spain

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for DeFranceschi in Spain, so it cannot narrow Spain's 35,936 volumes by date — see Spain's own page for all of it.

Hong Kong

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

Italy

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

494,271 of 1,288,913 volumes held for Italy overlap the 1550s, 1840s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1930s, 1960s and 1970s — the decades DeFranceschi is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names DeFranceschi. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for Italy →

Poland

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for DeFranceschi in Poland, so it cannot narrow Poland's 15,686 volumes by date — see Poland's own page for all of it.

Puerto Rico

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for DeFranceschi in Puerto Rico, so it cannot narrow Puerto Rico's 4,761 volumes by date — see Puerto Rico's own page for all of it.

Russia

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for DeFranceschi in Russia, so it cannot narrow Russia's 25,047 volumes by date — see Russia's own page for all of it.

United States of America

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for DeFranceschi in United States of America, so it cannot narrow United States of America's 528,875 volumes by date — see United States of America's own page for all of it.

When it was being born, in France

INSEE counts births by surname and decade from the état civil, 1891 to 2000 — the only dated evidence in this dataset. A name that starts at zero and climbs arrived; a name that falls to nothing left, died out, or emigrated, and the decade it stops is the decade to stop searching. It counts births registered in France, so a family that emigrated in 1900 simply stops appearing, which is information rather than a defect.

  • 1891–1900 6
  • 1901–1910 8
  • 1911–1920 11
  • 1921–1930 20
  • 1931–1940 13
  • 1941–1950 9
  • 1951–1960 15
  • 1961–1970 22
  • 1971–1980 12
  • 1981–1990 15
  • 1991–2000 15

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

France
Croatia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Southern Istria 9 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic → …
  • The Kvarner — Senj, Vinodol, Rijeka 8 eras Frankopan counts of Krk and Vinodol → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Dalmatia 10 eras Hungarian–Croatian crown → Republic of Venice → Austria → French Illyria → …
  • The Imotski frontier 7 eras Ottoman Empire → Republic of Venice → Austria → French Illyria → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
  • The Military Frontier — Vojna krajina 8 eras Habsburg military frontier, under Graz and Vienna → Habsburg → Croatia-Slavonia, within Hungary → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Yugoslavia → …
Austria
  • Hungary — the Kingdom's core 7 eras Kingdom of Hungary → Ottoman Hungary and Royal Hungary → Habsburg → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Bohemia 6 eras Kingdom of Bohemia → Austria → Czechoslovakia → Sudetenland and the Reichsprotektorat → …
  • Carnia, Friuli 6 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy → …
  • Moravia and Silesia 6 eras Margraviate of Moravia → Austria → Czechoslovakia → Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
Australia
  • Queensland 3 eras New South Wales → Colony of Queensland → Australia
Czechia
  • Bohemia 6 eras Kingdom of Bohemia → Austria → Czechoslovakia → Sudetenland and the Reichsprotektorat → …
  • Moravia and Silesia 6 eras Margraviate of Moravia → Austria → Czechoslovakia → Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren → …
  • Silesia 6 eras Habsburg Bohemian crown lands → Prussia → German Empire → Divided → …

Regions are also drawn in 4 other countries where this name is attested, further down the register's own list. The order here is how many people a register counted, so the countries above are the ones the name most belongs to.

No record region is drawn yet for Switzerland, Spain, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico — which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about those countries.

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