BoysGirls
| Rank | Name | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1Jean | 46,110 |
| 2 | 2Michel | 32,277 |
| 3 | 3Alain | 23,650 |
| 4 | 4Daniel | 20,303 |
| 5 | 5Gerard | 19,864 |
| 6 | 6Bernard | 19,222 |
| 7 | 7Christian | 16,249 |
| 8 | 8Jacques | 14,296 |
| 9 | 9Claude | 11,842 |
| 10 | 10André | 11,501 |
| 11 | 11Pierre | 11,246 |
| 12 | 12Jean-Pierre | 10,306 |
| 13 | 13Jean-Claude | 9,774 |
| 14 | 14Guy | 8,801 |
| 15 | 15René | 7,119 |
| 16 | 16Robert | 6,929 |
| 17 | 17Patrick | 6,888 |
| 18 | 18Yves | 6,347 |
| 19 | 19Serge | 6,025 |
| 20 | 20Roger | 5,737 |
| 21 | 21Francois | 5,520 |
| 22 | 22Philippe | 5,462 |
| 23 | 23Georges | 5,398 |
| 24 | 24Gilbert | 5,151 |
| 25 | 25Francis | 5,016 |
| 26 | 26Marcel | 4,588 |
| 27 | 27Joël | 4,472 |
| 28 | 28Henri | 4,291 |
| 29 | 29Maurice | 4,142 |
| 30 | 30Jean-Paul | 3,964 |
| 31 | 31Dominique | 3,785 |
| 32 | 32Marc | 3,770 |
| 33 | 33Raymond | 3,750 |
| 34 | 34Roland | 3,655 |
| 35 | 35Jean-Marie | 3,509 |
| 36 | 36Joseph | 3,434 |
| 37 | 37Jacky | 3,208 |
| 38 | 38Paul | 3,184 |
| 39 | 39Jean-Louis | 3,135 |
| 40 | 40Louis | 3,109 |
| 41 | 41Gilles | 2,965 |
| 42 | 42Denis | 2,628 |
| 43 | 43Patrice | 2,144 |
| 44 | 44Richard | 2,135 |
| 45 | 45Lucien | 2,053 |
| 46 | 46Jean-Francois | 1,945 |
| 47 | 47Didier | 1,920 |
| 48 | 48Jean-Jacques | 1,848 |
| 49 | 49Albert | 1,661 |
| 50 | 50Charles | 1,621 |
| 51 | 51Jean-Michel | 1,447 |
| 52 | 52Hervé | 1,430 |
| 53 | 53Hubert | 1,384 |
| 54 | 54Jean-Luc | 1,361 |
| 55 | 55Yvon | 1,358 |
| 56 | 56Noël | 1,268 |
| 57 | 57Antoine | 1,152 |
| 58 | 58Gabriel | 1,066 |
| 59 | 59Jackie | 1,050 |
| 60 | 60Jean-Marc | 984 |
| 61 | 61Jean-Yves | 942 |
| 62 | 62Lionel | 921 |
| 63 | 63Rémy | 900 |
| 64 | 64Bruno | 889 |
| 65 | 65Emile | 880 |
| 66 | 66Fernand | 873 |
| 67 | 67Regis | 797 |
| 68 | 68Thierry | 790 |
| 69 | 69José | 786 |
| 70 | 70Luc | 745 |
| 71 | 71Max | 703 |
| 72 | 72Etienne | 685 |
| 73 | 73Pascal | 612 |
| 74 | 74Bertrand | 610 |
| 75 | 75Norbert | 594 |
| 76 | 76Eric | 569 |
| 77 | 77Armand | 555 |
| 78 | 78Yannick | 528 |
| 79 | 79Laurent | 522 |
| 80 | 80Edmond | 509 |
| 81 | 81Léon | 508 |
| 82 | 82Jack | 499 |
| 83 | 83Rémi | 498 |
| 84 | 84William | 492 |
| 85 | 85Edouard | 477 |
| 86 | 86Vincent | 469 |
| 87 | 87Eugène | 467 |
| 88 | 88Olivier | 467 |
| 89 | 89Gaston | 446 |
| 90 | 90Xavier | 437 |
| 91 | 91Martial | 433 |
| 92 | 92Alfred | 428 |
| 93 | 93Sylvain | 414 |
| 94 | 94Aime | 378 |
| 95 | 95Julien | 365 |
| 96 | 96Camille | 360 |
| 97 | 97Jean-Noël | 351 |
| 98 | 98James | 339 |
| 99 | 99Yvan | 327 |
| 100 | 100Emmanuel | 324 |
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.