Uncommon French Boy Names
French naming includes formal classics, everyday short forms, and names shared across the Francophone world. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. 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. | 131#1,396 | Up 46 rank positions in five years | 1928 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1913. | 213#1,038 | Down 102 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 10#7,854 | Down 1,438 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
Recorded in French as Régis; in U.S. records from 1897. | 8#9,505 | Down 3,293 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 21#4,734 | Up 4,155 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1914. | 14#6,351 | Down 1,174 rank positions in five years | 1979 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1955. | 20#4,977 | Down 1,868 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1912. | 15#6,021 | Up 136 rank positions in five years | 1927 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1924. | 52#2,559 | Up 124 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Recorded in French as François; in U.S. records from 1912. | 18#5,274 | Up 794 rank positions in five years | 1992 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1882. | —Unranked | — | 1923 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1960. | 13#6,545 | Down 3,257 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1947. | 19#5,181 | Down 922 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1961. | 12#6,917 | Up 4,114 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1911. | —Unranked | — | 1990 | ||
Recorded in French as Loïc; in U.S. records from 1996. | 26#4,097 | Down 637 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Recorded in French as Benoît; in U.S. records from 1912. | 13#6,496 | new | 1922 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1923. | —Unranked | — | 1928 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1915. | 13#6,471 | Up 180 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 1958 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 2008. | 8#9,181 | new | 2018 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1913. | —Unranked | — | 2018 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1981. | —Unranked | — | 1981 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1985. | —Unranked | — | 1985 |
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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.