201 French Baby Names for Girls and Boys

French baby names can feel classic, stylish, and a little unexpected. Some are already familiar in the U.S., while others may be names you are hearing for the first time.

You may already love Juliette and Louis, or perhaps Cosette and Thibault are more your style. We grouped these 201 French girl and boy names into familiar and less common choices, with each list alphabetized to make comparing favorites easier.

French Girl Names

48 Familiar French Girl Names

1. Annette

2. Arielle

3. Béatrice

4. Belle

5. Bernadette

6. Camille

7. Celeste

8. Charlotte

9. Clarice

10. Clementine

11. Coco

12. Coralie

13. Daphne

14. Elise

15. Elouise

16. Estelle

17. Fay

18. Gabrielle

19. Genevieve

20. Gigi

21. Henriette

22. Isabelle

23. Jacqueline

24. Jeanne

25. Joelle

26. Josephine

27. Julianne

28. Juliette

29. Louise

30. Madeleine

31. Mallory

32. Margot

33. Mélinda

34. Michelle

35. Monique

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36. Natalie

37. Nicole

38. Noelle

39. Rochelle

40. Rosalie

41. Simone

42. Sophie

43. Sydney

44. Sylvia

45. Therese

46. Valerie

47. Violette

48. Vivienne

53 Less Common French Girl Names

1. Abrielle

2. Amélie

3. Anaïs

4. Aurore

5. Aurélie

6. Aveline

7. Avril

8. Bellamy

9. Blanche

10. Brigitte

11. Cécile

12. Céline

13. Cerise

14. Chantal

15. Claudette

16. Colette

17. Cosette

18. Delphine

19. Eléa

20. Éliane

21. Élodie

22. Esme

23. Euphrasie

24. Fabienne

25. Fantine

26. Faustine

27. Fleur

28. Fleurine

29. Giselle

30. Héloïse

31. Honorine

32. Jolie

33. Liana

34. Lisette

35. Lucienne

36. Maeva

37. Manon

38. Marguerite

39. Mathilde

40. Mavis

41. Mireille

42. Nadine

43. Odette

44. Pauline

45. Renee

46. Sabine

47. Satine

48. Séphora

49. Séraphine

50. Severine

51. Solange

52. Solène

53. Yvonne

French Boy Names

36 Familiar French Boy Names

1. Adrien

2. Alexandre

3. André

4. Beau

5. Blaise

6. Chase

7. Denis

8. Dominique

9. Emile

10. Fort

11. Gabriel

12. Gaston

13. Geoffrey

14. Guy

15. Harvey

16. Henri

17. Hugo

18. Jacques

19. Jean

20. Jules

21. Julien

22. Léo

23. Louis (Louie)

24. Maison

25. Marc

26. Maurice

27. Michel

28. Nicolas

29. Noel

30. Percy

31. Philippe

32. Pierre

33. Quincy

34. Regis

35. Remy

36. Russell

64 Less Common French Boy Names

1. Achille

2. Alain

3. Alcide

4. Amaury

5. Antoine

6. Armand

7. Aubert

8. Augustin

9. Baptiste

10. Basile

11. Bastien

12. Benoît

13. Cédric

14. Claude

15. Clovis

16. Corentin

17. Côme

18. Croix

19. Dumas

20. Éloi

21. Emeril

22. Etienne

23. Fabien

24. Florent

25. Florin

26. François

27. Gabin

28. Gaël

29. Gaspard

30. Gaylord

31. Gervais

32. Grégoire

33. Kylian

34. Lafayette

35. Lancelot

36. Laurent

37. Léandre

38. Leon

39. Loïc

40. Lowell

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41. Luc

42. Lucien

43. Mael

44. Marceau

45. Marion

46. Marius

47. Mathis/Mathys

48. Matthieu

49. Maxime

50. Nouvel

51. Olivier

52. Orville

53. Pascal

54. Percival

55. Philibert

56. Raoul

57. René

58. Romain

59. Sacha

60. Sébastien

61. Sylvain

62. Thibault

63. Toulouse

64. Valentin

Did any of these French names make your shortlist? You may have found a new favorite or returned to a name you already loved.

For more international inspiration, see our Italian baby names, Scandinavian baby names, and Greek baby names. You can also visit our Baby Names Hub to browse by origin, style, and first letter.