French
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
1,119
peak year 1915
More common than
89%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1915
- 31 births
- Best rank
- #534
- in 1891
- First recorded
- 1882
- #875 that year
- Last recorded
- 1999
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1931
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 90 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 191531#1,166Peak
- 192030#1,338
- 191829#1,324
- 192227#1,448
- 192527#1,433
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #534 in 1891 · peak births 31 in 1915
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
1,119 boys · 10 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where French has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.