Uncommon French Girl 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 1898. | 66#2,620 | Down 272 rank positions in five years | 1955 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1882. | 238#1,044 | Up 350 rank positions in five years | 1928 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 16#6,890 | Up 2,156 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1909. | 46#3,369 | Down 154 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1898. | 128#1,630 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 1967 | ||
Recorded in French as Aimée; in U.S. records from 1880. | 133#1,581 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 1977 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 65#2,674 | Up 853 rank positions in five years | 1954 | ||
Recorded in French as Joëlle; in U.S. records from 1918. | 248#1,010 | Down 248 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1880. | 42#3,591 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 1958 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1882. | 29#4,711 | Up 242 rank positions in five years | 1999 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1946. | 59#2,864 | Up 114 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1916. | 109#1,836 | Up 551 rank positions in five years | 1968 | ||
Recorded in French as Gisèle; in U.S. records from 1923. | 53#3,081 | Down 789 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1892. | 56#2,964 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1886. | —Unranked | — | 1959 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1912. | 33#4,343 | Up 643 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1899. | 24#5,332 | Down 833 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Recorded in French as Véronique; in U.S. records from 1952. | 10#10,061 | new | 1972 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1949. | 12#8,696 | Down 1,579 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in French as Françoise; in U.S. records from 1917. | —Unranked | — | 1967 | ||
Recorded in French as Aurélie; in U.S. records from 1914. | 37#3,911 | Up 1,115 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in French as Solène; in U.S. records from 2000. | 179#1,257 | Up 7,631 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in French; in U.S. records from 1926. | 11#9,053 | Up 6,844 rank positions in five years | 2021 |
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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.