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26 girl names of French origin, sorted by U.S. popularity.

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About French girl names

Within the French girl side specifically, Amy, Evelyn, and Nicole are the most-used in the U.S. record — a useful three-point sense of the register, since the rest of the list mostly varies between rarer literary, religious, and modern coinages.

This page shows 26 French girl names sorted by U.S. SSA totals — so the most-given names sit at the top and the rarer entries toward the bottom.

From Old French Amee, 'beloved', from Latin amata ('loved')

Wished-for child; desired

French feminine of Nicholas — from Greek nikē ('victory') + laos ('people'); literally 'victory of the people'

French form of Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, the moon, and wild nature — ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning 'divine' or 'heavenly'

French form of Julia, feminine of Julius — from the Latin Iulius, an ancient Roman family name traditionally explained as 'youthful' or 'descended from Jupiter'

Free woman; feminine of Charles

French feminine of Denis, ultimately from Greek Dionysios — 'devoted to Dionysus', the god of wine and ecstasy

From the region of Brittany in northwestern France — the name itself comes from the Britons who fled there from Roman Britain

French feminine of Louis, from Germanic hlud ('famous') + wig ('battle'); 'famous warrior'

God will increase

A medieval Norman feminine of Alice, itself a contraction of the Germanic Adelaide

From a Norman-French family name de Courtenay, ultimately a place name in France — possibly from Latin curtus ('short') as a nickname

Old French form of Helen, ultimately from Greek Ἑλένη ('torch, shining')

Free woman; feminine form of Charles

Likely from the fortified wine Sherry (named for the Spanish town of Jerez) or as a respelling of French chérie meaning 'darling'

Clear, bright, famous

From French Renée — the feminine of René, from Latin renatus meaning 'reborn' or 'born again'

French diminutive of Jeanne (French form of Jane), ultimately from Hebrew Yochanan meaning 'God is gracious'

From the Old French page meaning 'young attendant' — originally a medieval surname for a young man in the service of a noble

From Old French Geneviève, possibly from a Gaulish source meaning "tribe-woman" or "of the family

Norman-French diminutive of Alice, ultimately from Germanic Adelheidis — adal ('noble') + heid ('kind, type'); 'noble of kind'

A French elaboration of Rosa, "rose," formed with the Romance diminutive -alie

The French form of Camilla, originally a Roman name for a young attendant in religious rites (a camillus or camilla served at altars)

A French diminutive of Adela, from the Old High German element adal, "noble

A French short form of Élisabeth (Hebrew "my God is an oath"), spread internationally by Beethoven's piano bagatelle Für Elise ("For Elise")

A French form of Caelina, from Latin Caelius — likely from caelum, "sky, heaven

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