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Hideous.
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The reason why your friends resort to calling you by this nickname whether you want them to or not is because they are too lazy to spell Francesca or Francine.
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Francesca, Francisco, Francisca etc. Are all such beautiful names that it seems a shame to use a nickname as hideous as Fran.
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I don’t like this as a male’s name or nickname. It’s very gentle and delicate, for girls only.
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I love this. So tomboy.
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My name is Frances, which is often shortened to Fran. I like it, I think it sounds a bit cooler.
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Sounds like frowned.
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Fran Bow is the protagonist of the video game with the same name.
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A famous bearer is actress Fran Drescher.
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Francine Joy "Fran" Drescher is an American film and television comedian, model, actress, producer, ordained Universal Life Church minister, and activist. She is best known for her role as Fran Fine in the hit TV series The Nanny, and for her nasal voice and thick New York accent.
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Fran Healy is the lead singer of the Scottish band Travis.
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Also a shortening for Francesco, not Francesca.
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Fran sounds too classic and too boring and it isn't that complex, which is an okay thing about this name.
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Also Albanian form of Francis.
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A masculine bearer of this name is actor Francis Elliott 'Fran' Kranz, best known as Topher in Dollhouse and Marty in the Cabin in the Woods.
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Francesca 'Fran' Brodie from the Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun.
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In Croatia, Fran is a masculine name, cognate of Franjo. Frane and Frano are both variants.
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This name is a very common name for boys in Croatia. We pronounce it FRAHN.
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Fran Sinclair was the mother from Disney's 1992 series "Dinosaurs". She was often called "the mama" by Baby Sinclair.
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Fran is the name of one of the main characters from Final Fantasy XII.
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In response to what CharlieRob and Surreal said, Francesca and Francine are variants of Frances in different languages, so of course the name could be short for those names. I believe that only Frances is listed because it is the English version of the name, and this site is written in the English language.
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Fran can also be short for Francine. The actress Fran Drescher's real name is Francine, not Frances.
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Cool name. I believe it can also be short for Francesca.
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A famous bearer is the actress Fran Drescher (born Francine Joy Drescher on September 30, 1957.) She was the star of "The Nanny" and "Living With Fran."
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