Frans Xavier

Quality:

Francis Xavier - Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552). This person is the 4548^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Frans Xavier” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 56.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 29 references and 18 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Norwegian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5540^th most popular in AI.

The 4548^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Frans Xavier”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 3420 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5540^th place).

Francis Xavier is on the 4548^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 72 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 12993 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #492 in December 2010
• Global: #291 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #14413 in March 2013
• Global: #1772 in March 2013

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Francis Xavier		94.6483
2	Indonesian (id) Fransiskus Xaverius		88.6861
3	Basque (eu) Frantzisko Xabierkoa		81.3461
4	Hebrew (he) פרנסיסקו חאווייר		70.152
5	Spanish (es) Francisco Javier		61.5028
6	Polish (pl) Franciszek Ksawery		60.3831
7	Norwegian (no) Frans Xavier		56.6823
8	Chinese (zh) 方濟·沙勿略		56.3039
9	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ・ザビエル		52.3996
10	Portuguese (pt) Francisco Xavier		45.2102

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Francis Xavier		7 554 062
2	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ・ザビエル		4 896 401
3	Spanish (es) Francisco Javier		2 569 761
4	French (fr) François Xavier		758 967
5	Portuguese (pt) Francisco Xavier		683 901
6	Italian (it) Francesco Saverio		542 593
7	German (de) Franz Xaver		465 490
8	Indonesian (id) Fransiskus Xaverius		407 647
9	Chinese (zh) 方濟·沙勿略		372 646
10	Polish (pl) Franciszek Ksawery		339 344

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Francis Xavier		23 503
2	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ・ザビエル		18 468
3	Spanish (es) Francisco Javier		5 662
4	French (fr) François Xavier		1 915
5	Portuguese (pt) Francisco Xavier		1 784
6	Chinese (zh) 方濟·沙勿略		1 746
7	Italian (it) Francesco Saverio		1 732
8	German (de) Franz Xaver		1 437
9	Russian (ru) Франциск Ксаверий		874
10	Polish (pl) Franciszek Ksawery		841

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Francis Xavier		972
2	Spanish (es) Francisco Javier		255
3	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ・ザビエル		248
4	French (fr) François Xavier		216
5	German (de) Franz Xaver		202
6	Italian (it) Francesco Saverio		147
7	Portuguese (pt) Francisco Xavier		108
8	Chinese (zh) 方濟·沙勿略		101
9	Russian (ru) Франциск Ксаверий		93
10	Polish (pl) Franciszek Ksawery		81

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Franz Xaver		3
2	English (en) Francis Xavier		3
3	Spanish (es) Francisco Javier		2
4	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ・ザビエル		2
5	Dutch (nl) Franciscus Xaverius		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Fransisk Ksaveri		1
7	Catalan (ca) Francesc Xavier		1
8	Basque (eu) Frantzisko Xabierkoa		1
9	Hebrew (he) פרנסיסקו חאווייר		1
10	Slovak (sk) František Xaverský		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information