Top 100 baby boy names for births in France during year 1940

Year

Rank	Name	Births
1	1Jean	34,863
2	2Michel	16,368
3	3Claude	11,586
4	4André	10,063
5	5Pierre	9,985
6	6Jacques	9,325
7	7Bernard	8,635
8	8Gérard	7,293
9	9Daniel	7,255
10	10René	6,759
11	11Robert	6,035
12	12Guy	5,677
13	13Roger	5,610
14	14Marcel	5,263
15	15Georges	4,783
16	16Alain	4,407
17	17Maurice	4,295
18	18Henri	4,289
19	19Joseph	4,000
20	20Paul	3,719
21	21Raymond	3,675
22	22Louis	3,648
23	23François	3,545
24	24Christian	3,495
25	25Jean-Claude	3,094
26	26Yves	3,070
27	27Gilbert	2,845
28	28Serge	2,656
29	29Lucien	2,261
30	30Albert	2,240
31	31Roland	2,222
32	32Jean-Pierre	2,186
33	33Philippe	2,100
34	34Francis	1,943
35	35Charles	1,609
36	36Marc	1,524
37	37Emile	1,205
38	38Antoine	1,109
39	39Fernand	1,048
40	40Gabriel	867
41	41Hubert	847
42	42Joël	779
43	43Denis	762
44	44Léon	715
45	45Eugène	713
46	46Yvon	713
47	47Jacky	698
48	48Jean-Marie	677
49	49Edouard	669
50	50Gaston	642
51	51Noël	616
52	52Alfred	589
53	53Armand	567
54	54Gilles	563
55	55Edmond	539
56	56Dominique	516
57	57Etienne	512
58	58Jackie	494
59	59Richard	493
60	60Julien	482
61	61Aime	454
62	62Jean-Paul	448
63	63Victor	435
64	64Camille	420
65	65Max	418
66	66Auguste	414
67	67Jules	390
68	68Rémy	374
69	69Hervé	356
70	70Norbert	353
71	71Jean-Louis	349
72	72Marius	345
73	73Regis	338
74	74Ernest	320
75	75Félix	317
76	76José	304
77	77Bruno	301
78	78Alexandre	297
79	79Jack	295
80	80Patrick	295
81	81Germain	286
82	82Rémi	285
83	83Alphonse	278
84	84Laurent	266
85	85Adrien	263
86	86Jean-Jacques	260
87	87Elie	253
88	88Simon	252
89	89Vincent	251
90	90Raoul	247
91	91Clément	238
92	92Lionel	238
93	93Emmanuel	222
94	94Marie	214
95	95James	209
96	96Luc	202
97	97Stanislas	198
98	98Bertrand	197
99	99Yvan	196
100	100Martial	194

Source: INSEE, Fichier des prénoms. Used under the Licence Ouverte (Etalab). Coverage: Names given at least 20 times (1900 to 1945) or 20 times overall since 1946, and at least 3 times in a year; rarer names are grouped by INSEE and left out.

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