Short French Girl 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. | 3,547#65 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 472#619 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
Recorded in French as Chloë; in U.S. records from 1880. | 6,203#23 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in French as Élise; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,367#223 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Recorded in French as Léa; in U.S. records from 1880. | 321#848 | Down 97 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Recorded in French as Élyse; in U.S. records from 1913. | 286#918 | Down 200 rank positions in five years | 1987 | ||
Recorded in French as Lélia; in U.S. records from 1880. | 17#6,709 | Down 2,828 rank positions in five years | 1919 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 44#3,463 | Up 37 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
French-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1947. | 243#1,030 | Down 314 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 207#1,130 | Up 225 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in French as Inès; in U.S. records from 1883. | 213#1,111 | Up 662 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in French as Léone; in U.S. records from 1880. | 6#14,185 | Down 3,421 rank positions in five years | 1916 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1945. | 443#650 | Up 476 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in French as Alizé; in U.S. records from 1987. | 55#2,999 | Down 30 rank positions in five years | 2002 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1940. | 60#2,831 | Down 355 rank positions in five years | 1962 | ||
French-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 29#4,679 | Down 306 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1919. | 108#1,845 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1922. | —Unranked | — | 1959 | ||
French-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1895. | —Unranked | — | 1935 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1881. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1920. | 36#4,012 | Up 575 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1968. | 12#8,635 | Down 4,026 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in French as Aïcha; in U.S. records from 1969. | 52#3,103 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1917. | 10#9,861 | Up 4,621 rank positions in five years | 1999 |
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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.