French
Surname, place name, word name
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Updated Mon Nov 04 2024
French Origin and Meaning
The name French is a girl's name .
A mash-up of popular name trends, French is all at once a place name, word name, and surname name. It's evocative of a favorite celebrity baby name fad of using nationalities as names as opposed to places, as in Mariah Carey's Moroccan.
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