BoysGirls
| Rank | Name | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1Jean | 38,206 |
| 2 | 2Michel | 27,956 |
| 3 | 3Alain | 24,047 |
| 4 | 4Gerard | 18,619 |
| 5 | 5Bernard | 18,356 |
| 6 | 6Daniel | 18,226 |
| 7 | 7Christian | 17,040 |
| 8 | 8Jacques | 13,040 |
| 9 | 9Patrick | 11,928 |
| 10 | 10Claude | 10,561 |
| 11 | 11Pierre | 10,308 |
| 12 | 12Jean-Pierre | 9,972 |
| 13 | 13André | 9,662 |
| 14 | 14Guy | 8,231 |
| 15 | 15Jean-Claude | 7,988 |
| 16 | 16Philippe | 7,524 |
| 17 | 17Serge | 7,391 |
| 18 | 18Joël | 6,507 |
| 19 | 19Yves | 6,385 |
| 20 | 20Robert | 6,093 |
| 21 | 21René | 6,001 |
| 22 | 22Dominique | 5,652 |
| 23 | 23Francis | 5,411 |
| 24 | 24François | 5,311 |
| 25 | 25Gilbert | 4,983 |
| 26 | 26Roger | 4,952 |
| 27 | 27Georges | 4,659 |
| 28 | 28Marc | 4,213 |
| 29 | 29Jean-Paul | 4,168 |
| 30 | 30Marcel | 3,976 |
| 31 | 31Gilles | 3,797 |
| 32 | 32Henri | 3,704 |
| 33 | 33Patrice | 3,649 |
| 34 | 34Didier | 3,566 |
| 35 | 35Jean-Louis | 3,545 |
| 36 | 36Jean-Marie | 3,439 |
| 37 | 37Roland | 3,402 |
| 38 | 38Denis | 3,386 |
| 39 | 39Jacky | 3,308 |
| 40 | 40Maurice | 3,275 |
| 41 | 41Raymond | 3,253 |
| 42 | 42Joseph | 3,111 |
| 43 | 43Paul | 2,689 |
| 44 | 44Louis | 2,552 |
| 45 | 45Jean-Luc | 2,346 |
| 46 | 46Richard | 2,172 |
| 47 | 47Jean-Jacques | 2,130 |
| 48 | 48Jean-Francois | 2,052 |
| 49 | 49Hervé | 1,992 |
| 50 | 50Jean-Michel | 1,883 |
| 51 | 51Lucien | 1,777 |
| 52 | 52Jean-Marc | 1,656 |
| 53 | 53Charles | 1,535 |
| 54 | 54Bruno | 1,438 |
| 55 | 55Albert | 1,387 |
| 56 | 56Hubert | 1,353 |
| 57 | 57Yvon | 1,276 |
| 58 | 58Noël | 1,245 |
| 59 | 59Pascal | 1,194 |
| 60 | 60Antoine | 1,191 |
| 61 | 61Thierry | 1,142 |
| 62 | 62Lionel | 1,137 |
| 63 | 63Jean-Yves | 1,118 |
| 64 | 64Regis | 1,105 |
| 65 | 65Luc | 975 |
| 66 | 66Gabriel | 936 |
| 67 | 67Rémy | 917 |
| 68 | 68José | 900 |
| 69 | 69Eric | 839 |
| 70 | 70Jackie | 815 |
| 71 | 71Fernand | 737 |
| 72 | 72Emile | 724 |
| 73 | 73Etienne | 715 |
| 74 | 74Max | 706 |
| 75 | 75Olivier | 683 |
| 76 | 76Bertrand | 660 |
| 77 | 77Yannick | 648 |
| 78 | 78Laurent | 614 |
| 79 | 79Norbert | 578 |
| 80 | 80Vincent | 571 |
| 81 | 81Sylvain | 562 |
| 82 | 82Rémi | 529 |
| 83 | 83Armand | 524 |
| 84 | 84Xavier | 517 |
| 85 | 85Gérald | 501 |
| 86 | 86Frédéric | 498 |
| 87 | 87Martial | 491 |
| 88 | 88William | 473 |
| 89 | 89Edouard | 401 |
| 90 | 90Edmond | 398 |
| 91 | 91Loïc | 388 |
| 92 | 92Jean-Noël | 384 |
| 93 | 93Eugène | 383 |
| 94 | 94Alfred | 376 |
| 95 | 95Léon | 376 |
| 96 | 96Jack | 374 |
| 97 | 97Emmanuel | 363 |
| 98 | 98Gaston | 351 |
| 99 | 99James | 333 |
| 100 | 100Benoît | 323 |
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.