Compiled below for you are 150 popular French surnames arranged in alphabetical.

Popular french names in the 1500s. It may be an error possibly a combination of two separate entries. From the given name which is of Germanic origin Thomas patronymic. The top five names account for 70 of all men studied.

31 This is a feminine form of Jehan. Look at the names of writers nobility or political figures and you see a lot of Francois Louis Henri Michel Jean Jacques Charles Joseph Etienne Raymond. Handsome comely Old French viz vit sight visage.

Deschamps meaning they are from the fields or Paris indicating the individual is from Paris. This forename was in use as late as c1500 1 sn. From the medieval given name of Biblical origin meaning twin.

Some 16 th Century Parisian Male French Names. The list of the most common mens given names in England stayed pretty nearly constant from the 1530s through 1700 especially the top four or five names though the exact order changed a bit. Old French biau bel Middle French beau beautiful fair.

By the 1550s corsets became common among European and British women. Joan was the most common form of what later became almost exclusively Jane. Francesco - Common name found in Milan Venice Urbino etc during the 1400s - 1500s 3 Galeazzo - Milanese name from the 1400s - 1500s 3 Gasparo - Venetian name from the 1400s - 1500s 1 3 Gianfrancesco - Name from Mantua during the 1400s - 1500s 3.

From Old Breton Conan apparently fairly common in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire 1 sn. A form of Diggory 1 sn. Baby girl names popular in current day France include Manon Anais Noemie Kenza and Maeva.