Masculine dossier · first seen 1882

French

Name: SSA baby-name counts for French
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1915

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1882Peak 19152024

Peak year

1915

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,119

French has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1915, when 31 boys were named French.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,119 Americans have been named French and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1882.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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