Those of you with a Francis

[Boyandgirlmama23]

Have you had positive comments on the name?
What nickname if any do you use?

i think the only nicknames are frank/frankie? The others are all for the female version really

Francis (or Frances for a girl) can be shortened to Fran. The one I know gets only positive comments (or no comments, which is even better!).

I know a male Francis who goes by the name Fran. Really suits him. But he's a big scouse guy. So I imagine no one really wants to scoff at his name.

I know a very posh young Francis who goes by Franny which only sounds appropriate in the accents of his equally posh friends

You'll get positive comments and the odd negative one, which you will have probably seen on here (Ooh that's lovely, Oh how unusual, Isn't that a girl's/Catholic name etc, It's a bit dull ...). You'd probably get the same with any name.

I don't have a Francis but it was DH1's saint name. I know an adult Francis and an adult Frances. Both usually known by the full name but sometimes Frans and Fran respectively. Both get their names misspelt sometimes.

Frankie! Oi oi!
A great name!

I love the name Francis, I'd say Fran for a nickname or Fran.

Frank, Frankie, Fra & Francie all common nicknames where I’m from (never Fran).

Fran is short for Francine.
Its always been Frank or Frankie .

Erm who says? Fran can (and very much is) a nickname for Francis and Frances.

My son is Francis and as he has reached adulthood we started calling him Frankie. We never did in childhood.
His nickname at Uni was Frannie and that has stuck with his group of friends from there.
I absolutely adore his name and have only ever had positive comments on it.

I find Francis very feminine (perhaps as I knew a Frances growing up) and I don't like it for a boy at all. I think if you were going to have Frank or Frankie as a nn then I'd just have that as their name to start with.

A couple of girl Frances I know still use their childhood nicknames- one is Frog! And let’s not forget Frances in Dirty Dancing, who went by Baby.
Obviously in an official capacity they’d just use their full name.

Francis/Frances is a good solid name and as nicknames go, anything goes…

I know a little Frances who is called Frankie by her family. Lovely name

It really isn’t.

The one I know doesn’t shorten it.

The I know doesn’t shorten it either.

The lead singer of Travis is a Francis who shortens it to Fran.

Lovely name.

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