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Francesca is beautiful, but the only Francesca I ever knew went by Fran. She said that her siblings sometimes called her Franca, pronounced so that the first syllable rhymes with John. I don't care for either of those nicknames, especially Fran. I know your friend may say, "Oh, no, we won't call her Fran, she'll always be Francesca" but I think that it's so natural to shorten Francesca to Fran that it would be hard to avoid (at least here in the U.S., I wouldn't know about Italy or any other country.) That's the reason I wouldn't use Francesca.