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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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Constance Constance is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "steadfastness," one of the abstract virtue names the early Church favored.
Girl French #1,508 in US
Daryl Daryl completes a set of three — Darrell, Darryl and Daryl are one Norman place name split across three spellings, and all three appear in our gap band, carrying about 328,000 births between them.
Boy French #1,538 in US
Paulette Paulette is a girl's name meaning small or humble, a French diminutive of Paul — so it is a diminutive of a name that already means little.
Girl French #1,539 in US
Angeline Angeline means messenger, and the Greek word behind it was an ordinary job title — angelos named someone carrying news, and every wing and choir attached to it since came later.
Girl French #1,571 in US
Aimee Aimee means beloved, and it is grammatically passive — the French past participle of aimer, to love, so the name says she who is loved rather than she who loves.
Girl French #1,586 in US
Yvette Yvette is a girl's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, by way of Breton.
Girl French #1,625 in US
Nadine Nadine looks entirely French and is Russian underneath — it is Nadezhda, the ordinary Russian word for hope, borrowed into French and given a French ending.
Girl French #1,627 in US
Guy Guy is a boy's name from a Germanic word probably meaning wood or wide, and one of very few names to have become an ordinary English noun — through Guy Fawkes, whose effigies gave the word its modern sense.
Boy French #1,643 in US
Marquis Peaked in 1990 · 25,057 births since 1880
Boy French #1,675 in US
Adrienne Adrienne means from Hadria, an Italian town that also named the Adriatic Sea — so the name and the sea are both called after a small settlement whose own name is uncertain.
Girl French #1,677 in US
Denise Denise is a girl's name, the French feminine of Denis, and like it traces to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine.
Girl French #1,681 in US
Darrell Darrell does not mean beloved.
Boy French #1,698 in US
Zélie Zélie is a girl's name of French origin, a short form of Azélie, and belongs to Saint Zélie Martin, the mother of Thérèse of Lisieux, canonised in 2015.
Girl French #1,698 in US
Antoine Antoine is a boy's name from the Roman family name Antonius, the French form of Anthony.
Boy French #1,716 in US
Denis Denis is a boy's name from the Greek god of wine, and Ireland places it 240th — its strongest market by a wide margin.
Boy French #1,719 in US
Henri Henri is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler," borne by four kings of France and by the one who converted to end a religious war.
Boy French #1,725 in US
Augustin Augustin is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "venerable" or "majestic," the French form of Augustine.
Boy French #1,747 in US
Valentine Valentine is a unisex name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy."
Unisex French #1,793 in US
Marianne Marianne is the personification of the French Republic, and her bust stands in every town hall in France — so the name carries a civic weight in one market that it has nowhere else.
Girl French #1,827 in US
Mylan Mylan is a boy's name of Slavic origin meaning "dear" or "gracious," a French respelling of Milan.
Boy French #1,829 in US
Josette Josette is the only faded name in this group — it peaked in France at 6,650 births in 1946 and now ranks nowhere in France at all, surviving only in the United States at 1837th.
Girl French #1,837 in US
Vivien Peaked in 1986 · 18,383 births since 1900
Unisex French #1,848 in US
Francine Francine means Frenchwoman, and it is a French diminutive of a name that already means French — so it reads as a small French person, which is circular in a way few names manage.
Girl French #1,849 in US
Lou Lou is a girl's name in France, a short form of Louise and Louis meaning "famous warrior."
Girl French #1,927 in US
Jacques Jacques is a boy's name, the French form of Jacob, and our data marks it reviving.
Boy French #1,933 in US
Léopold Peaked in 1902 · 23,990 births since 1900
Boy French #1,992 in US
Edmond Edmond means wealthy protector, and its saint was a king shot with arrows by Danes — Edmund of East Anglia was England's patron for three centuries before George replaced him.
Boy French #2,007 in US
Marin Marin is a unisex name of Latin origin meaning "of the sea," from the Roman Marinus.
Unisex French #2,043 in US
Marion Marion is a French diminutive of Mary that has crossed sexes twice over — it is 81 percent female in our records, yet its most famous bearer was John Wayne, born Marion Robert Morrison.
Unisex French #2,044 in US
Arabelle Peaked in 2017 · 2,817 births since 1893
Girl French #2,046 in US
Yvonne Yvonne is a girl's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, by way of Breton.
Girl French #2,053 in US
Emile Emile is a boy's name from a Roman family name whose meaning is uncertain — rival and eager are both proposed, and neither is settled.
Boy French #2,093 in US
Darryl Darryl does not mean darling.
Boy French #2,117 in US
Bridgette Peaked in 1970 · 24,548 births since 1943
Girl French #2,119 in US
Sabine Sabine names a people rather than a quality — the Sabines were an Italic tribe Rome absorbed early, and the abduction of their women is one of Rome's founding stories.
Girl French #2,143 in US
Alexandre Alexandre is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of mankind," the French form of Alexander.
Boy French #2,148 in US
Leya Leya is a girl's name of recent coinage, generally read as a respelling of Leah or Leia.
Girl French #2,165 in US
Lyana Lyana is a girl's name of recent coinage, usually read as a respelling of Liana, meaning a climbing vine, or as an elaboration of Lya.
Girl French #2,218 in US
Collette Peaked in 1966 · 9,677 births since 1898
Girl French #2,246 in US
Clément Clément is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "merciful" or "gentle," borne by fourteen popes and by one of the earliest Christian writers outside the New Testament.
Boy French #2,273 in US
Léonie Léonie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lioness," the French feminine of Leon.
Girl French #2,288 in US
Eliott Eliott is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God," a French spelling of Elliot that descends from Elijah.
Boy French #2,314 in US
Thérèse Thérèse is a girl's name of genuinely uncertain meaning, the French form of Teresa.
Girl French #2,318 in US
Elody Peaked in 1988 · 2,002 births since 1973
Girl French #2,362 in US
Suzanne Suzanne is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "lily," from shoshannah.
Girl French #2,401 in US
Jeanette Jeanette means God is gracious, a French double diminutive of Jeanne.
Girl French #2,406 in US
Léana Léana is a girl's name with no single source, a modern French formation read variously as a blend of Léa and Ana or as a form of Helen.
Girl French #2,436 in US
Sébastien Sébastien is a boy's name meaning from Sebaste, a city whose own name means venerable — it renders the imperial title Augustus into Greek.
Boy French #2,455 in US

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