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1200+ French Names (with Meanings and Popularity)

  1. Ulisses
    • Jordane
      • Laurette
        • Purvis
          • Origin:

            French and English
          • Meaning:

            "providing food"
          • Description:

            This spelling does not dispel the "perv" connection.
        • Villiers
          • Origin:

            French
          • Meaning:

            "town-dweller"
          • Description:

            Name with aristrocratic overtones.
        • Vériane
          • Ballou
            • Origin:

              French
            • Meaning:

              "from Bellou"
            • Description:

              This surname-name comes with some great connotations: Addie Ballou the American feminist, Kurt Ballou — guitarist with the band Converge, or Adin Ballou — abolitionist and pacifist. It has a trendy, whimsical sound that sets it apart from more traditional surnames like Cooper, Hunter, and Archer and puts it more in the camp of the softer international names like Aaru, Bayou, and Finlo.
          • Rivage
            • Origin:

              French word name
            • Meaning:

              "shore"
            • Description:

              Unique, soft, and flowing.
          • Jöel
            • Demetre
              • Thomasine
                • Ivonne
                  • Origin:

                    French variation of Yvonne
                  • Description:

                    The I freshens up this name.
                • Villette
                  • Origin:

                    French
                  • Meaning:

                    "small town"
                  • Description:

                    Charming Gallic name uncommon in France, and unknown in this country, with literary credibility as the title of a Charlotte Brontë novel.
                • Nynette
                  • Ismaël
                    • Domitilla
                      • Origin:

                        Italian feminine diminutive of Roman family name Domitius, Latin
                      • Meaning:

                        "tamed"
                      • Description:

                        Domitilla is the name of the wife of the Roman emperor Vespasianus and the mother of the emperors Titus and Domitianus. There is a Santa Domitilla with catacombs in Rome named after her.
                    • Séraphine
                      • Grégoire
                        • Vinciane
                          • Varena