Frančišković families are Croats and they are mostly from Bakar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Bakar.
Prevalence
About 250 people with faimily name Frančišković live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 30 other places, mostly in Rijeka (80), Krasica (45), Praputnjak (35), Hreljin (15), and in Zagreb (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1692 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.