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Defrančeski

Defrančeski, also written De Franceski. Attested in Croatia, Slovenia, Argentina, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Serbia, United States of America, South Africa, borne by about 27 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 Franceski

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.

DeFranceschi

Only sounds alike

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

De FranceschDe Franceschi

It is also the name of a place

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 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 10 countries: Croatia, Slovenia, Argentina, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Serbia, United States of America, South AfricaArgentina — attested, not countedAustralia — attested, not countedGermany — attested, not countedUnited Kingdom — attested, not countedItaly — attested, not countedSerbia — attested, not countedUnited States of America — attested, not countedSouth Africa — attested, not countedSlovenia — 6 peopleCroatia — 21 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 10 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.

Croatia

21 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 Defrančeski is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Defrančeski. 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 →

Slovenia

6 Borne — a state counted them — Family names, Slovenia, 2026 (SURS tables 05X1015S–05X1018S).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Defrančeski in Slovenia, so it cannot narrow Slovenia's 1,585 volumes by date — see Slovenia's own page for all of it.

Argentina

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Defrančeski in Argentina, so it cannot narrow Argentina's 9,060 volumes by date — see Argentina'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 Defrančeski in Australia, so it cannot narrow Australia's 1,889 volumes by date — see Australia's own page for all of it.

Germany

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Defrančeski in Germany, so it cannot narrow Germany's 3,243 volumes by date — see Germany's own page for all of it.

United Kingdom

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Defrančeski in United Kingdom, so it cannot narrow United Kingdom's 69,643 volumes by date — see United Kingdom's own page for all of it.

Italy

Found in a record — Falco.

Whose archive to write to

374,583 of 1,288,913 volumes held for Italy overlap the 1550s, 1840s, 1880s, 1900s, 1930s, 1960s and 1970s — the decades Defrančeski is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Defrančeski. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for Italy →

⚜ Serbia

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Defrančeski in Serbia, so it cannot narrow Serbia's 2 volumes by date — see Serbia'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 Defrančeski 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.

South Africa

Found in a record — Defranceschi.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Defrančeski in South Africa, so it cannot narrow South Africa's 5,287 volumes by date — see South Africa's own page for all of it.

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.

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 → …
Slovenia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
Argentina
Australia
  • Queensland 3 eras New South Wales → Colony of Queensland → Australia
Germany
  • Pomerania and Danzig 7 eras Duchy of Pomerania → Swedish Pomerania in the west; Brandenburg-Prussia in the east → Prussia → German Empire → …
  • Bohemia 6 eras Kingdom of Bohemia → Austria → Czechoslovakia → Sudetenland and the Reichsprotektorat → …
  • Silesia 6 eras Habsburg Bohemian crown lands → Prussia → German Empire → Divided → …
  • Alsace and Lorraine 6 eras France → German Empire → German annexation
  • Denmark 4 eras Denmark–Norway → Denmark, after the loss of Norway → Prussia, then the German Empire → Denmark

Regions are also drawn in 5 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.

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