Popularity of the last name by country

Ukraine

• Kyyivska (104)
• Respublika Krym (11)
• Odeska (11)

All countries

• France (836,426)
• United Kingdom (77,482)
• Germany (63,705)
• Belgium (44,302)
• Italy (26,108)
• United States (23,319)
• Canada (17,149)
• Spain (9,530)
• Tunisia (8,474)
• Netherlands (6,375)
• Israel (4,505)
• Unknown country (4,204)
• Switzerland (4,164)
• Turkey (3,596)
• Palestine (3,210)
• Austria (3,013)
• Algeria (1,927)
• New Zealand (1,895)
• Egypt (1,851)
• Mauritius (1,347)
• Australia (949)
• Luxembourg (881)
• Czech republic (818)
• Russian Federation (617)
• Ireland (518)
• Morocco (516)
• Greece (480)
• Latvia (456)
• Portugal (334)
• Slovenia (326)
• Lebanon (310)
• Denmark (294)
• Hungary (280)
• Martinique (253)
• Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (250)
• Poland (227)
• Sweden (217)
• Syrian Arab Republic (188)
• Haiti (183)
• Réunion (174)

Origine of last name

FRANCE : 1: English: ethnic name for someone from France (see 2 below).2: French: habitational name given to someone from France (at the time when the name only applied to those lands belonging to the French king covering only a small part of its current territory) or from Île-de-France (i.e. from a region centered on Paris); or in southern France an ethnic name for someone from what is now the northern half of the country where the langue d'oïl (Old French as distinct from Occitan) was spoken. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Defrance">Defrance</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Lafrance">Lafrance</a>.3: Czech (Franče): from a pet form of František Latin Franciscus (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Francis">Francis</a>).4: Slovenian: from a pet form of the personal name <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Franc">Franc</a>.