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OriginSurname, place name, word name
About French
A mash-up of popular name trends, French is all at once a place name, word name, and surname name. It's evocative of a favorite celebrity baby name fad of using nationalities as names as opposed to places, as in Mariah Carey's Moroccan.
Pronounced FRENCH.
As of October 2026, French ranked #5261 in US births in 1920 SSA, peaked at #5102 in 1918.
Editor's take: The name French is a girl's name.
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