Here is a list of French names that start with X. The page includes French names for boys and girls and explains why such names are so uncommon.
The list is divided into several sections. The modern names are baby names and other names popular in the 2000s, while the traditional names are those common among people born in the 1900s.
The names come from data provided by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, with a few additions from Wikipedia, Reddit and other sources. All of the names also appear in my Random French Name Generator.
- Male French Names that Start with X
- Female French Names that Start with X
- French Last Names that Start with X
French Male Baby Names Beginning with X
- Xavier
Very few French names (male or female) start with X, with Xavier being essentially the only widely used one. The name Xavier comes from the Basque place name Etxeberria (“new house”), made famous by Saint François Xavier, a 16th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary.
French Female Baby Names, Starting with X
There are no common names for French women that start with X. The sound /ks/ or /gz/ written as “x” is almost never used to start a word in French. That’s why even common Latin names with X in English (Xenia, Xander, Ximena) are virtually unused in France.
When the French language uses the /ks/ sound, it adds a vowel before X: Alexandre, Maxence, Maxime, Roxane. That “Ex-/Ax-/Ox-” pattern sounds natural, whereas a raw “X-” feels foreign and abrupt.
French Last Names that Start with X
There are no common French surnames that start with X. Most French surnames developed in the Middle Ages from given names, occupations, nicknames, or places. As the sound /ks/ never starts native French words, it is also absent from the initials of French surnames.
About this List
I have made similar lists of French names for all the letters of the alphabet from A to Z:
- Names that Start with A
- Names that Start with B
- Names that Start with C
- Names that Start with D
- Names that Start with E
- Names that Start with F
- Names that Start with G
- Names that Start with H
- Names that Start with I
- Names that Start with J
- Names that Start with K
- Names that Start with L
- Names that Start with M
- Names that Start with N
- Names that Start with O
- Names that Start with P
- Names that Start with Q
- Names that Start with R
- Names that Start with S
- Names that Start with T
- Names that Start with U
- Names that Start with V
- Names that Start with W
- Names that Start with X
- Names that Start with Y
- Names that Start with Z
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