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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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Serge Serge is a boy's name from a Roman family name of unknown meaning, and it is also a cloth — the twilled fabric is named from the same Latin word for silk, by a separate route.
Boy French #8,422 in US
Vache Peaked in 2023 · 30 births since 1978
Boy French #8,583 in US
Christelle Christelle is a French girl's name meaning a follower of Christ.
Girl French #8,613 in US
Mireille Mireille was invented by a poet.
Girl French #8,713 in US
Damia Peaked in 2005 · 1,381 births since 1971
Girl French #8,726 in US
Fleur Peaked in 2006 · 9,217 births since 1900
Girl French #8,905 in US
Regis Regis is grammatically odd — it is not a name but a case ending, the Latin genitive meaning of the king, so the name is half a phrase left standing on its own.
Boy French #8,950 in US
Maximilien Peaked in 1989 · 13,297 births since 1900
Boy French #8,999 in US
Gaspard Gaspard is a boy's name meaning "treasurer," the French form of Caspar, traditionally one of the three Magi.
Boy French #9,016 in US
Aloïs Aloïs is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior" — the same name as Louis, arrived at through a Latinized form rather than the French one.
Boy French #9,029 in US
Lazare Peaked in 2025 · 3,833 births since 1900
Boy French #9,229 in US
Alaine Peaked in 1967 · 1,484 births since 1916
Girl French #9,398 in US
Jocelyne Jocelyne is the French feminine of a name that began as a man's — the Germanic Gauzlin, built on the tribal name of the Gauts, the people Beowulf belongs to.
Girl French #9,418 in US
Arsène Arsène is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "male" or "virile," and in France it belongs above all to a fictional gentleman thief.
Boy French #9,448 in US
Lucette Lucette means little light, a French double diminutive — and the root behind it stands in Lucifer too, which was simply the Latin name for the morning star before it named anything else.
Girl French #9,458 in US
Germain Peaked in 1912 · 34,056 births since 1900
Boy French #9,836 in US
Noélie Peaked in 2012 · 16,007 births since 1900
Girl French #9,875 in US
Manon Manon is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, a French diminutive of Marie whose meaning has never been settled.
Girl French #9,953 in US
Véronique Véronique is a girl's name meaning true image, the French form of Veronica. It holds 237,412 recorded births and does not currently chart in any of the six markets we track, while the English form still charts in four.
Girl French #9,966 in US
Océane Océane means of the ocean, and it is almost entirely French — 283rd there against 2998th in England and Wales and 10001st in the United States.
Girl French #10,001 in US
Annelyse Peaked in 1979 · 1,835 births since 1944
Girl French #10,018 in US
Germaine Germaine is a girl's name meaning of Germany, or a brother — the Latin word behind it is the source of both germane and the German name for the country's people.
Girl French #10,310 in US
Julienne Peaked in 1909 · 32,919 births since 1900
Girl French #10,335 in US
Carole Carole is a girl's name meaning free man, the French spelling of Carol.
Girl French #10,350 in US
Victoire Victoire is a girl's name meaning "victory," the French form of the Latin Victoria.
Girl French #10,378 in US
Jean-Marie Jean-Marie is given to men in France despite the Marie — 97 percent of the births in our records are male, because French Catholic naming attached Marie to boys as a devotional marker rather than a feminine one.
Boy French #10,635 in US
Claudette Claudette means little lame one, and it is an uncomplimentary name that a Roman dynasty made prestigious — the Claudii held the emperorship, and the byname's original sense stopped mattering.
Girl French #10,635 in US
Jeanine Jeanine means God is gracious, and it is a French elaboration of Jeanne — which makes it a feminine of a feminine, three derivations away from the Hebrew name it carries.
Girl French #10,668 in US
Dupree Peaked in 1989 · 877 births since 1914
Boy French #10,683 in US
Apolline Apolline is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "belonging to Apollo," the French feminine of Apollinaris.
Girl French #10,745 in US
Clémence Clémence is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "mercy" or "mildness," one of the Roman virtue names.
Girl French #10,820 in US
Jeannine Jeannine is a girl's name meaning God is gracious, a French diminutive of Jeanne.
Girl French #10,836 in US
Laverne Laverne means the alder grove, and the goddess sometimes cited for it is a poor fit — Laverna was the Roman patroness of thieves, which is not a namesake most sources mention when they list her.
Unisex French #10,845 in US
Alban Alban is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "white" or "of Alba," and its saint was the first Christian martyr in Britain.
Boy French #10,884 in US
Jacky Jacky is 98 percent male in our records, which is the reverse of the English Jackie — France took it as a boy's name and kept it, while English-speaking countries made it a woman's.
Boy French #11,096 in US
Eugénie Eugénie means well-born, and its most famous bearer lost an empire — Empress Eugénie was the last French empress, fled Paris in 1870 and died in Madrid in 1920 having outlived the regime by fifty years.
Girl French #11,114 in US
Bonaventure Peaked in 1900 · 441 births since 1900
Unisex French #11,500 in US
Martine Martine is a girl's name meaning of Mars, the French feminine of Martin.
Girl French #11,505 in US
Patrice Patrice is masculine in French and feminine in English — the same spelling, opposite sexes on either side of the Channel.
Unisex French #11,511 in US
Lynnae Peaked in 1971 · 1,216 births since 1945
Girl French #11,582 in US
Oriane Peaked in 2001 · 10,466 births since 1949
Girl French #11,681 in US
Bridge Peaked in 2019 · 143 births since 1981
Boy French #11,681 in US
Basile Basile is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "royal" or "kingly," from basileus, a king.
Boy French #11,995 in US
Lydie Lydie names a kingdom, and that kingdom invented money — Lydia struck the world's first coins in the seventh century BC, and its last king Croesus is still a byword for wealth.
Girl French #12,128 in US
Léonore Peaked in 2025 · 6,727 births since 1900
Girl French #12,228 in US
Bijou Peaked in 2010 · 321 births since 1998
Girl French #12,303 in US
Dali Peaked in 2025 · 777 births since 1982
Unisex French #12,333 in US
Raphaëlle Raphaëlle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God heals," the French feminine of Raphaël, and the archangel it names is the one who travels in disguise.
Girl French #12,560 in US

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