500+ French Dog Names

Soft, amber-hued herbal and autumnal name that's used most often to describe the color of a horse. The proper spelling: Sorrel.

The French spelling of Lucy feels particularly light and shimmery.

Although the accent in Linnet is on the first syllable, it could be confused with the dated Lynette.

Yet another creative character name from Toni Morrison, Denver was a daughter of Sethe's in the novel Beloved. Today Denver is most familiar as the name of the largest city in Colorado, used almost equally for girls and boys.

In the Top 25 in the unisex seventies, these days Tracy would more likely be Gracie.

Creative choice, evoking the high-kicking can-can girls and other colorful figures in the works of Toulouse-Lautrec.

Sophisticated French choice. Or toxic petrochemical.

A sleek, smooth, understated name off the grid in the US but among the Top 100 girl names in Germany. In the US, it is a unisex name, while in Germany and the Netherlands, it is predominantly feminine.

A smooth and velvety Gallic choice first heard here as the heroine of the movie "Chocolat."

French version of August, for both sexes. And for those who feel the spelling of August is too plain.

Marine is an extremely popular and fashionable name in France that's virtually unknown here — and is ready to set sail. Marine feels more contemporary than Marina and less hippie-esque than Oceane, another popular name for girls in France.

Only if you're an aviation buff or seriously addicted to popcorn.

Amy was a 1970s favorite, and French spelling Aimee peaked in the same decade.

Minuet is delicate, dancey, and lacy, with a Masterpiece Theatre feel. Is Minuet a real name? Not really, though similar-sounding French names such as Minette and Manette are.

This is the French form of Lazarus, which recently has been rising from the dead – it's popular on Nameberry, and was used for his son by musician Trent Reznor. Lazare might be familiar to some via the Gare Saint-Lazare train station in Paris.

Somehow more modern and likable than Morris or Doris.

Almost always a girl's name now.

While Sidney in this spelling has a long history as a girls' name, it fell off the Top 1000 from the early 50s until 1990. Then it reemerged as one of the newly chic androgynous names for girls, rising into the Top 300 before falling off the Top 1000 list again in 2016. Sydney is now the more fashionable form.

Has a musty 1940s feel. Try Georgia -- or Georgiana.