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French Names

French names divide into two histories. Some are Latin worn smooth by a thousand years of French speech; others are Germanic names brought by the Franks and kept in French mouths — which is why a great many of the most French-sounding names on the list are not Latin at all.

Languages behind these names Latin Hebrew Germanic Greek uncertain French

Rankings for

842 names, most popular first in United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Adèle Adèle is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," from the element adal.
Girl French #753 in US
Noé Noé is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "rest" or "comfort," the French and Spanish form of Noah.
Boy French #755 in US
Soleil Peaked in 2025 · 5,930 births since 1981
Girl French #756 in US
Elina Elina is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "torch" or "bright," a Finnish, Baltic and Italian form of Helen.
Girl French #765 in US
Léa Léa is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the French form of Leah, the elder sister of Rachel in Genesis.
Girl French #848 in US
Darcy Darcy is a name of Norman French origin meaning "from Arcy," a place in Normandy.
Unisex French #858 in US
Lance Lance does not mean a spear.
Boy French #862 in US
Julie Julie is a girl's name, the French form of Julia, from a Roman family name of uncertain origin.
Girl French #872 in US
Odette Odette is a girl's name meaning wealth, a French diminutive of Oda — and it is the white swan in Swan Lake, opposite her black double Odile, both traditionally danced by the same ballerina.
Girl French #881 in US
Leroy Leroy is a boy's name that is simply the French for the king, taken as one word.
Boy French #884 in US
Anaïs Anaïs has no settled origin — Occitan, a form of Anne, and a Greek borrowing are all proposed.
Girl French #892 in US
Violette Violette is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "violet," and in France it belongs to an agent executed at Ravensbrück at twenty-three.
Girl French #894 in US
Lucien Lucien is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the French form of Lucian.
Boy French #897 in US
Naël Naël is a boy's name with two possible sources: an Arabic name meaning "achiever" or "winner," and a Breton short form of Nathanaël.
Boy French #903 in US
Quentin Quentin is a boy's name meaning fifth — a Roman birth-order name, given to a fifth child or one born in the fifth month.
Boy French #967 in US
Beaux Peaked in 2025 · 3,216 births since 1977
Unisex French #970 in US
Gage Gage means a pledge, and it names the object rather than the person — the thing handed over as security.
Boy French #975 in US
Curtis Curtis is a boy's name from a Norman French nickname meaning courteous, and it is one of very few names that describes manners rather than birth, appearance or trade.
Boy French #984 in US
Simone Simone is a girl's name meaning he has heard, the French feminine of Simon.
Girl French #997 in US
Corinne Corinne is a girl's name from the Greek for a maiden, and it was borne by a poet said to have beaten Pindar five times in competition.
Girl French #999 in US
Joelle Joelle is the only rising name in this group, and one of very few at this volume anywhere in our data — it peaked in 2017, while almost everything of comparable size peaked between 1950 and 1995.
Girl French #1,010 in US
Jolie Peaked in 2008 · 15,519 births since 1947
Girl French #1,032 in US
Bernadette Bernadette is a girl's name meaning brave as a bear, and its bearer was a fourteen-year-old miller's daughter whose visions at Lourdes in 1858 turned a Pyrenean grotto into one of the most visited places on earth.
Girl French #1,037 in US
Salomé Salomé is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "peace," and the woman the name is best known for is never actually named in the gospels.
Girl French #1,042 in US
Blaise Peaked in 2015 · 15,489 births since 1913
Boy French #1,043 in US
Lorraine Lorraine is a girl's name from the French region, whose own name means the kingdom of Lothair — a Frankish king's realm that was carved out of Charlemagne's empire and slowly disappeared.
Girl French #1,045 in US
Lyam Lyam is a boy's name, a French respelling of Liam, itself a short form of the Irish Uilliam and so of William.
Boy French #1,087 in US
Rene Rene is a name from the Latin for reborn, given at baptism to mark spiritual rebirth.
Boy French #1,093 in US
Renee Renee is a girl's name from the Latin for reborn, given at baptism to mark spiritual rebirth.
Girl French #1,101 in US
Marian Marian is a girl's name that either joins Mary and Ann or diminutives Mary alone — the sources disagree.
Girl French #1,102 in US
Inès Inès is a girl's name meaning "pure" or "holy," the French and Spanish form of Agnes.
Girl French #1,112 in US
Lucie Lucie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the French form of Lucy.
Girl French #1,131 in US
Aubrielle Peaked in 2017 · 5,281 births since 1991
Girl French #1,144 in US
Adrien Adrien is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "from Hadria," a town that also gave the Adriatic its name.
Boy French #1,161 in US
Jean Jean is a unisex name in our data: the French form of John, meaning "God is gracious," and separately a Scottish feminine form of Jane.
Unisex French #1,169 in US
Angelique Angelique means angelic, and the Greek root behind it simply means a messenger — the wings arrived much later in art, layered onto an ordinary word that described a person carrying news from one place to another.
Girl French #1,197 in US
Margaux Margaux is a girl's name meaning "pearl," a French respelling of Margot created in the twentieth century and associated with the Bordeaux wine commune.
Girl French #1,199 in US
Marc Marc is a boy's name from a Roman name probably meaning dedicated to Mars, the god of war, and it is the source of the month of March.
Boy French #1,240 in US
Eliette Peaked in 1933 · 8,733 births since 1902
Girl French #1,244 in US
Pierre Pierre is a boy's name, the French form of Peter, from the Greek for rock.
Boy French #1,253 in US
Vernon Vernon is a Norman place name meaning a place of alders, from a Gaulish word — so a French town gave England a surname that America turned into a first name, three languages deep.
Boy French #1,383 in US
Jules Jules is a boy's name, the French form of the Roman family name Julius, traditionally explained as "youthful."
Boy French #1,395 in US
Desiree Desiree means desired, and it began as a Puritan virtue name rather than a French one — Desiderius was a late Roman Christian name for a longed-for child, and French inherited it before English did.
Girl French #1,431 in US
Esmae Esmae is a girl's name of Old French origin meaning "esteemed" or "beloved."
Girl French #1,443 in US
Annette Annette is a girl's name meaning grace, a French diminutive of Anne.
Girl French #1,449 in US
Dominique Dominique is a French name meaning of the Lord, given to children born on a Sunday.
Unisex French #1,476 in US
Nathalie Nathalie is a girl's name meaning birthday of the Lord, given to children born at Christmas.
Girl French #1,481 in US
Jermaine Jermaine means brother, and it is French rather than Germanic — germain is the ordinary word for a full brother, and it has nothing to do with Germany despite appearances.
Boy French #1,494 in US

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