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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

105 names, rare — 25 to 99 a year, in United States

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Destinee Peaked in 1999 · 17,448 births since 1973
Girl French 54 in 2025
Gisèle Gisèle means a pledge, and the pledge in question was a person — the Frankish word meant a hostage given as security for a treaty, which is how the name entered the royal families of medieval Europe.
Girl French 53 in 2025
Leyna Leyna is a girl's name with no single source, read as a form of Lena, of the Arabic Lina, or as a modern coinage.
Girl French 50 in 2025
Charly Charly is a unisex name in France, a respelling of Charlie meaning "free man," from the Germanic. It ranks sixtieth in France and is recorded in our data as unisex, which is rare at this rank in any market.
Unisex French 64 in 2025
Renae Peaked in 1970 · 15,570 births since 1925
Girl French 48 in 2025
Lowell Lowell means little wolf, and it is Norman French rather than English — louvel is a diminutive of loup, so the name is affectionate about an animal most cultures feared.
Boy French 36 in 2025
Noémie Noémie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "pleasantness," borne by a woman in the Book of Ruth who asks to be called the opposite.
Girl French 47 in 2025
Esmée Esmée is a girl's name of Old French origin meaning "esteemed" or "beloved," from the past participle of esmer.
Girl French 47 in 2025
Mathis Mathis is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God," a French form of Matthias.
Boy French 35 in 2025
Vianney Peaked in 1989 · 7,613 births since 1942
Unisex French 47 in 2025
Monique Monique is a girl's name, the French form of Monica, whose meaning is genuinely unknown despite the confident answers usually given for it.
Girl French 46 in 2025
Rainier Peaked in 2023 · 985 births since 1956
Boy French 35 in 2025
Gaston Gaston is a boy's name most likely meaning "from Gascony," and a Disney villain has made it difficult in English while France is reviving it.
Boy French 34 in 2025
Art Peaked in 1961 · 6,760 births since 1880
Boy French 34 in 2025
Aline Aline means noble, worn down from Adelaide through Adeline — three names that are the same word at three stages of erosion, and France ranks it 292nd on 185 births.
Girl French 44 in 2025
Merle Merle means blackbird, and it is one of the genuinely mixed names on this site — 33 percent of the births in our records are female, and our data marks it reviving.
Unisex French 38 in 2025
Luc Luc means from Lucania, an Italian region — so the name is a place rather than the light it is usually said to mean, and the light reading comes from confusion with a separate Latin word.
Boy French 33 in 2025
Darcie Darcie is a girl's name of Norman French origin meaning "from Arcy."
Girl French 43 in 2025
Elie Elie means my God is the Lord, and it is a declaration aimed at a rival — the prophet's whole career is a contest against Baal, and his name states the winning side before he opens his mouth.
Boy French 42 in 2025
Beauregard Peaked in 2017 · 630 births since 1893
Boy French 32 in 2025
Hélène Hélène is a girl's name, the French form of Helen, whose Greek meaning was never established.
Girl French 42 in 2025
Pascal Pascal is a boy's name meaning of Easter, given to children born at Passover or Easter — and the word behind it is Hebrew, not Latin.
Boy French 31 in 2025
Evelyne Evelyne is a French form of Evelyn, and the name is a chain of diminutives with a lost root — Aveline, from Avila, from a Germanic element nobody has securely identified.
Girl French 42 in 2025
Geoffrey Geoffrey means peace, and only half of it is settled — the second element is agreed, while the first is disputed between three unrelated Germanic words, so the name is half-translatable.
Boy French 31 in 2025
Delphine Delphine means of Delphi, and the dolphin reading is not a coincidence — the Greeks connected the oracle site and the animal through a word for a womb, so both descend from the same root.
Girl French 42 in 2025
Sacha Sacha is a boy's name in France, the French spelling of the Russian diminutive of Alexander, meaning "defender of mankind."
Boy French 30 in 2025
Camélia Camélia is a girl's name taken from the camellia, a flower Linnaeus named after a Jesuit missionary botanist called Kamel — so the name is a surname twice removed.
Girl French 40 in 2025
Justine Justine means just or fair, from the Latin word behind justice — and it ranks 407th in France against 3738th in the United States, which is one of the widest market splits anywhere in this group.
Girl French 40 in 2025
Timothée Timothée is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "honoring God," the French form of Timothy.
Boy French 29 in 2025
Auguste Auguste is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "great" or "venerable," the French form of Augustus.
Boy French 28 in 2025
Galia Peaked in 2024 · 723 births since 1967
Girl French 38 in 2025
Georgette Georgette is a girl's name meaning farmer, and it is one of very few names to have become a fabric — the crepe is named after the French dressmaker Georgette de la Plante.
Girl French 38 in 2025
Aurélie Aurélie is a French girl's name meaning golden, from a Roman family name.
Girl French 37 in 2025
Armand Armand is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "army man," the French form of Herman, borne by the cardinal who built the centralized French state.
Boy French 28 in 2025
Etienne Etienne means crown, and the Greek behind it is the wreath given to victors — so a name now read as saintly began as a prize handed to the winner of a race.
Boy French 27 in 2025
Gaby Peaked in 2022 · 6,718 births since 1905
Unisex French 36 in 2025
Abigaëlle Peaked in 2021 · 5,309 births since 1981
Girl French 36 in 2025
Solange Solange means solemn, from a Latin word meaning religiously binding — and our data marks it reviving, ranking 677th in France against 4283rd in the United States.
Girl French 33 in 2025
Elya Elya is a unisex name of Hebrew origin, a form of Elijah meaning "my God is the Lord."
Girl French 35 in 2025
Magali Magali is Occitan rather than French, and it means of Magdala — a town on the Sea of Galilee, so the name is a place several removes back rather than any quality of its bearer.
Girl French 31 in 2025
Jeanne Jeanne is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious," the French feminine of Jean.
Girl French 30 in 2025
Rochelle Rochelle means little rock, and it is a place rather than a person — La Rochelle on the Atlantic coast was a Huguenot stronghold, and the name reached English through the town rather than any saint.
Girl French 30 in 2025
Jory Peaked in 1991 · 4,539 births since 1947
Unisex French 31 in 2025
Michel Michel is a boy's name, the French form of Michael, from a Hebrew question meaning who is like God.
Boy French 31 in 2025
Clair Peaked in 1923 · 18,359 births since 1880
Unisex French 29 in 2025
Liliane Liliane means lily, and our data marks it reviving — 753rd in France on 55 births, against 4146th in England and Wales and 4744th in the United States, so the revival is entirely French.
Girl French 29 in 2025
Michele Michele is a girl's name, the single-l spelling of Michelle, from a Hebrew question meaning who is like God.
Girl French 28 in 2025
Azélie Peaked in 2025 · 1,575 births since 1900
Girl French 28 in 2025

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