Named For Artists: Francis

Francis

Name origin: Old French

Name meaning: Free; an androgynous name, though Frances is generally used for girls and Francis for boys

Bacon

Name origin: English and French

Name meaning: metonymic occupational name for a preparer and seller of cured pork, from Middle English, Old French bacun, bacon ‘bacon’ (a word of Germanic origin, akin to Back 1).

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