500+ French Dog Names

This spelling does not dispel the "perv" connection.

Ambrette is the name of a French dessert pear, and also a West Indian hibiscus seed.

Pronounced Beshette, this unfamiliar French appellation sounds fresh and feminine.

Once exclusively male name, Daryl Hannah made the Darrell spelling just as appropriate for girls -- and maybe even more feminine than masculine these days.

Unique, soft, and flowing.

Associated with the "Star Trek" commander of the USS Enterprise.

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.

Name with aristrocratic overtones.

Bachelor feels more like a prediction than a name.

Old-time movie actor Franchot Tone (born Stanislas -- Franchot was his mother's maiden name) earned this name its own place in the book. An interesting, provocative choice.

Name of Faulkner's great emotional villain in As I Lay Dying, Anse is not ordinarily used as a first name. It literally means cove in French, though the element ans means God in Old German and is found in names such as Ansel and Anselm.

For remembrance of books past, Proust might be a meaningful middle name.

Manet is the accessible, attractive name of an Impressionist great; it could be the next Monet.

Beautiful meaning for parents fond of nature-themed names that are a little less obvious. Actor Chaney Kley was one famous bearer of this surname-name.

A French word name that could be a fresh spin on Summer or Autumn.

Breton is the term for the people and language of Brittany, a region of northern France with a distinct culture. Breton also might be thought of as a trendy modern invention, taking the midcentury surfer boy Bret or Brett and adding the current favorite boy's name ending -on and turning it into a name all its own. Bretton is a variation.