Take a look at the table which gives you a detailed information on some popular and famous French women names along with the meanings.
Popular french names in the 18th century. Beauvis m French Archaic Medieval Medieval French Old French biau bel Middle French beau beautiful fair. 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 Middle French oncle uncle.
Jean-Marie Marie-José Marie-Jeanne Paul-Henri Pierre-Marie Marie-Pierre Jean-François. 300 AD until the 18th century. Louis Charles Henri Philippe Edouard Joseph Pierre Jean AndréAnd as for girls Marie by a huge margin with the composed names Marie-françoise Marie-Amélie Marie-Jeanne etc.
Popular in the 18th and 19th. Michel Begon an 18th century governor. From a diminutive of given name Nicolas.
Are not Top 2000 names. 28 of the French. Unique French baby names attracting fresh attention in both France and beyond include for girls Capucine Darcy Delphine Elodie Maribel Oceane Ottilie Quincy Romilly and Sylvie.
The Life of My Father 1779 and Monsieur Nicolas 1794 by Nicolas-Edme Rétif but the success of the century was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who founded the genre of the modern autobiography with les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire The dreams of a solitary walker in 1776 and. In the country side so 90 of the population the names were the traditional ones. The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 6 2012 110 1 I would like to gratefully acknowledge funding from The Carnegie Trust who granted me a Carnegie Vacation Scholarship JulyAugust 2011 in order to conduct this research project.
Baby girl names popular in current day France include Manon Anais Noemie Kenza and Maeva. 306 rows Nicolas has 18 instances while its diminutive Colin with 74 instances is the 4th most. Derived from French clou meaning nail referring to someone who made or sold nails.