Short French Boy Names
French naming includes formal classics, everyday short forms, and names shared across the Francophone world. Every spelling here has five letters or fewer, making the written length easy to compare. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,316#262 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Recorded in French as Joël; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,633#219 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 1985 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1901. | 162#1,237 | Down 145 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Recorded in French as Félix; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,064#175 | Up 50 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,529#230 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in French as Noël; in U.S. records from 1880. | 635#478 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in French as Gaël; in U.S. records from 1919. | 3,860#86 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 176#1,172 | Up 248 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 95#1,712 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 1952 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 10#8,074 | Up 483 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
Recorded in French as Clém; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
Recorded in French as Rémi; in U.S. records from 1915. | 323#787 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1942. | 44#2,835 | Down 216 rank positions in five years | 1988 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1949. | 33#3,482 | Down 952 rank positions in five years | 2002 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1928 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1976. | 200#1,075 | Up 402 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1914. | 9#8,790 | Down 1,819 rank positions in five years | 1972 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1973. | 64#2,208 | Down 211 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1946. | 36#3,256 | Down 172 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1916. | 17#5,596 | Up 1,012 rank positions in five years | 1985 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1886. | —Unranked | — | 1973 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1970. | 30#3,738 | Up 56 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in French as Hervé; in U.S. records from 1911. | —Unranked | — | 1921 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1984. | 11#7,655 | Up 1,040 rank positions in five years | 2006 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.