Francis 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 “Francis Xavier” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) 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 “Francis Xavier”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English 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 27 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12993 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1724 in April 2014
• Global: #291 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #14541 in December 2020
• 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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