BoysGirls
| Rank | Name | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1Philippe | 22,108 |
| 2 | 2Jean | 21,011 |
| 3 | 3Patrick | 19,908 |
| 4 | 4Michel | 17,717 |
| 5 | 5Alain | 16,058 |
| 6 | 6Christian | 14,068 |
| 7 | 7Didier | 13,720 |
| 8 | 8Pascal | 13,624 |
| 9 | 9Dominique | 11,999 |
| 10 | 10Bernard | 10,146 |
| 11 | 11Daniel | 9,818 |
| 12 | 12Thierry | 8,398 |
| 13 | 13Bruno | 7,507 |
| 14 | 14Pierre | 7,292 |
| 15 | 15Eric | 6,963 |
| 16 | 16Gilles | 6,918 |
| 17 | 17Jean-Pierre | 6,848 |
| 18 | 18Serge | 6,706 |
| 19 | 19Gérard | 6,680 |
| 20 | 20Marc | 6,507 |
| 21 | 21Claude | 6,324 |
| 22 | 22Jacques | 6,293 |
| 23 | 23Jean-Luc | 5,816 |
| 24 | 24François | 5,352 |
| 25 | 25Yves | 4,987 |
| 26 | 26Joël | 4,778 |
| 27 | 27Denis | 4,727 |
| 28 | 28Jean-Claude | 4,647 |
| 29 | 29Patrice | 4,570 |
| 30 | 30Francis | 4,451 |
| 31 | 31André | 4,227 |
| 32 | 32Guy | 4,181 |
| 33 | 33Jean-Marc | 4,166 |
| 34 | 34Jean-Michel | 3,815 |
| 35 | 35Hervé | 3,408 |
| 36 | 36Jean-Louis | 3,011 |
| 37 | 37Jean-Paul | 2,950 |
| 38 | 38Jean-Francois | 2,890 |
| 39 | 39Jean-Marie | 2,745 |
| 40 | 40Robert | 2,735 |
| 41 | 41Laurent | 2,661 |
| 42 | 42René | 2,593 |
| 43 | 43Gilbert | 2,566 |
| 44 | 44Frédéric | 2,492 |
| 45 | 45Olivier | 2,377 |
| 46 | 46Jean-Jacques | 2,282 |
| 47 | 47Georges | 2,278 |
| 48 | 48Jacky | 2,050 |
| 49 | 49Roger | 1,998 |
| 50 | 50Joseph | 1,973 |
| 51 | 51Luc | 1,911 |
| 52 | 52Roland | 1,887 |
| 53 | 53Henri | 1,872 |
| 54 | 54Christophe | 1,846 |
| 55 | 55Richard | 1,694 |
| 56 | 56Marcel | 1,592 |
| 57 | 57Lionel | 1,588 |
| 58 | 58Jean-Yves | 1,579 |
| 59 | 59Regis | 1,538 |
| 60 | 60Paul | 1,461 |
| 61 | 61Fabrice | 1,394 |
| 62 | 62Bertrand | 1,365 |
| 63 | 63Raymond | 1,304 |
| 64 | 64Maurice | 1,295 |
| 65 | 65Charles | 1,291 |
| 66 | 66Hubert | 1,278 |
| 67 | 67Vincent | 1,243 |
| 68 | 68Antoine | 1,232 |
| 69 | 69José | 1,225 |
| 70 | 70Louis | 1,224 |
| 71 | 71Stéphane | 1,209 |
| 72 | 72Xavier | 1,134 |
| 73 | 73Yannick | 1,109 |
| 74 | 74Sylvain | 1,099 |
| 75 | 75Franck | 1,055 |
| 76 | 76Rémy | 1,003 |
| 77 | 77Yvon | 847 |
| 78 | 78Lucien | 835 |
| 79 | 79Albert | 816 |
| 80 | 80Noël | 804 |
| 81 | 81Loïc | 788 |
| 82 | 82Emmanuel | 765 |
| 83 | 83Benoit | 732 |
| 84 | 84Rémi | 711 |
| 85 | 85Etienne | 647 |
| 86 | 86William | 604 |
| 87 | 87Martial | 588 |
| 88 | 88Jean-Philippe | 563 |
| 89 | 89Gabriel | 553 |
| 90 | 90Jerome | 544 |
| 91 | 91Max | 542 |
| 92 | 92Norbert | 518 |
| 93 | 93Nicolas | 484 |
| 94 | 94Hugues | 477 |
| 95 | 95Mario | 428 |
| 96 | 96Jean-Charles | 379 |
| 97 | 97Gérald | 376 |
| 98 | 98Arnaud | 367 |
| 99 | 99Jean-Noël | 365 |
| 100 | 100Yvan | 357 |
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.