Heritage & languages
Names that work in English and French
55 names · 28 girls · 27 boys · records through 2025
The same practical test applied to French: names spelled the same and understood the same on both sides, with no silent-letter surprises for whichever side is reading.
This guide has 55 names: 28 girl names and 27 boy names. A curated set of names in common use in both English and French matched against the latest US records; only names in real use appear. Built from US Social Security birth records through 2025. Tap + beside any name to keep it on your shortlist as you read.
Before the names
The girls' side is much deeper than the boys' — Claire, Camille, Simone, Sophie and Juliette all work unchanged, while the boys' list depends more on names with a Latin root the two languages share.
Everything below is verified in current US records. The French-names guide covers the full heritage register; this one is the crossover cut.
Girl names
28 names
- Charlotte#2 today
- Chloe#23 today
- Josephine#53 today
- Sophie#55 today
- Alice#65 today
- Claire#68 today
- Margot#102 today
- Juliette#110 today
- Isabelle#166 today
- Celine#207 today
- Elise#223 today
- Camille#240 today
- Sylvie#282 today
- Elodie#310 today
- Colette#316 today
- Nicole#382 today
- Beatrice#508 today
- Jacqueline#558 today
- Estelle#573 today
- Marie#617 today
- Anne#619 today
- Adele#751 today
- Amelie#827 today
- Simone#995 today
- Lucie#1129 today
- Nathalie#1478 today
- Yvette#1622 today
- Denise#1673 today
Boy names
27 names
- Benjamin#11 today
- Daniel#22 today
- Gabriel#37 today
- Theo#82 today
- Christian#96 today
- Vincent#107 today
- Leon#138 today
- Felix#175 today
- Victor#209 today
- Louis#249 today
- Paul#262 today
- Martin#335 today
- Andre#368 today
- Hugo#377 today
- Remy#408 today
- Noel#478 today
- Roland#607 today
- Julien#709 today
- Bruno#740 today
- Eugene#943 today
- Rene#1091 today
- Pierre#1252 today
- Jerome#1256 today
- Bernard#1362 today
- Dominique#1466 today
- Antoine#1708 today
- Henri#1708 today
Every rank and count here is published by the US Social Security Administration and refreshed each year when the new figures land. The method is stated at the top of this page.
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