Francis vs Fran - What's the difference?
francis | fran |
* ~1591 William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet : Act V, Scene III:
* 1820 , Names , The Indicator, No. XVIII, February 9th, 1820:
* 2006 (Kate Atkinson), One Good Turn , Black Swan(2007), ISBN 9780552772440, page 454:
*:Francis had never been 'Frank' or 'Fran', he had always been called by his full name. It had lent him a certain dignity that he had possibly never earned.
, a rare spelling variant of Frances.
A ghost town in Nebraska.
A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
A town in Utah.
A diminutive of the female given names Frances and Francine.
A diminutive of the male given name Francis.
English diminutives of female given names
English diminutives of male given names
As adjectives the difference between francis and fran
is that francis is while fran is front.francis
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Saint Francis be my speed! how oft tonight / Have my old feet stumbled at graves!
- Francis is one of the pleasantest names in use. It has a fine open air with it, - a sound correspondent to its sense.