270+ French Boy Names

Still verboten, even with a French accent.

French form of Leopold.

This surname-name comes with some great connotations: Addie Ballou the American feminist, Kurt Ballou — guitarist with the band Converge, or Adin Ballou — abolitionist and pacifist. It has a trendy, whimsical sound that sets it apart from more traditional surnames like Cooper, Hunter, and Archer and puts it more in the camp of the softer international names like Aaru, Bayou, and Finlo.

This is a French occupational namename brought to the fore by poet Vachel Lindsay, born Nicholas Vachel (Vachel being his father's first name), considered the founder of modern poetry intended to be sung or chanted. and also author of the first book of film criticism in 1915.

A name that is truly honored in France, as the name of several saints, artists like Daumier, and writers like Balzac.

Dashing unisex saint's name sometimes associated with the Cajun cadences of New Orleans.

This could be a fresh way to honor an ancestral Walter.

Ron Burgundy was Will Ferrell's fictional helmet-haired newsman, but this color name is much more suited to a girl.

Francois is the ultimate sophisticated French name.

Common surname rarely used as a first.

A Blaise/Blaze hybrid that maintains neither the history of Blaise nor the wordiness of Blaze.