Discover 55 French Names That Start With J You'll Love

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Most Popular French Names Starting With J : List To Read
Video To see (YouTube)
French Names That Start With J : Pronunciation To Listen (Mp3)
French Names That Start With J : PDF To Print

Are you looking for a French name beginning with J for your future boy or girl ?

I’ve sorted the 10 most popular French first names (boys and girls) starting with J by generation :

Baby boomers between 1946 and 1964
Generation X between 1965 and 1980
Generation Y between 1981and 1996
Generation Z between 1997 and 2012
Generation ALPHA between 2013 and today

And you can also see, listen to the pronunciation and print a list of first names beginning with J in an YouTube video, MP3 and pdf file below (end of the post).

Most Popular French Names Starting With J : List To Read

For each generation, you’ll find the 10 most popular French first names, i.e. the names that have been given the most in France during that generation :

Baby Boomers (1946 – 1964) : Girls

How to read the graph ?

ex : Jacqueline is the most popular GIRL first name that start with J between 1946 and 1964 with 109,340 girls born with the first name “Jacqueline”.

Josiane is the second most popular GIRL first name that beginning with J given to baby boomers (1946 – 1964) with 81,810 births.

…etc

French-GIRLS-names-that-start-with-J-baby-boomers

Rank	First Name	Gender (Girl)	Nombre
1	JACQUELINE	Girl	109,340
2	JOSIANE	Girl	81,810
3	JOCELYNE	Girl	80,378
4	JOËLLE	Girl	73,527
5	JOSETTE	Girl	55,242
6	JEANNINE	Girl	37,811
7	JEANNE	Girl	22,845
8	JANINE	Girl	16,842
9	JEANINE	Girl	13,009
10	JEANNETTE	Girl	4,899

Baby Boomers (1946 – 1964) : Boys

How to read the graph ?

ex : Jean is the most popular BOY first name that start with J between 1946 and 1964 with 547,000 girls born with the first name “Jean”.

Jacques is the second most popular BOY first name that beginning with J given to baby boomers (1946 – 1964) with 168,281 births.

…etc

Rank	First Name	Gender (Boy)	Nombre
1	JEAN	Boy	547,000
2	JACQUES	Boy	168,281
3	JEAN-PIERRE	Boy	148,238
4	JEAN-CLAUDE	Boy	114,925
5	JOËL	Boy	102,397
6	JEAN-LUC	Boy	82,581
7	JEAN-PAUL	Boy	64,600
8	JEAN-LOUIS	Boy	57,327
9	JEAN-MARC	Boy	55,319
10	JEAN-MARIE	Boy	53,378

French-BOYS-names-that-start-with-J-baby-boomers

Generation X (1965 – 1980) : Girls

French-GIRLS-names-that-start-with-J-Generation-X

Rank	First Name	Gender (Girl)	Nombre
1	JULIE	Girl	21,668
2	JOËLLE	Girl	11,273
3	JOCELYNE	Girl	9,217
4	JACQUELINE	Girl	8,277
5	JENNIFER	Girl	7,836
6	JESSICA	Girl	6,974
7	JULIETTE	Girl	6,159
8	JOSIANE	Girl	4,884
9	JEANNE	Girl	3,976
10	JULIA	Girl	3,015

Generation X (1965 – 1980) : Boys

French-BOYS-names-that-start-with-J-Generation-X

Rank	First Name	Gender (Boy)	Nombre
1	JEROME	Boy	112,001
2	JEAN	Boy	88,672
3	JULIEN	Boy	53,803
4	JEAN-FRANÇOIS	Boy	39,296
5	JEAN-LUC	Boy	31,350
6	JEAN-MARC	Boy	30,666
7	JEAN-MICHEL	Boy	28,385
8	JEAN-PIERRE	Boy	27,630
9	JEAN-PHILIPPE	Boy	24,493
10	JOËL	Boy	24,403

Generation Y (1981 – 1996) : Girls

French-GIRLS-names-that-start-with-J-Generation-Y

Rank	First Name	Gender (Girl)	Nombre
1	JULIE	Girl	116,871
2	JESSICA	Girl	53,610
3	JENNIFER	Girl	52,766
4	JUSTINE	Girl	41,741
5	JULIETTE	Girl	18,326
6	JOHANNA	Girl	16,878
7	JULIA	Girl	13,374
8	JEANNE	Girl	7,869
9	JOANNA	Girl	4,482
10	JADE	Girl	4,463

Generation Y (1981 – 1996) : Boys

French-BOYS-names-that-start-with-J-Generation-Y

Rank	First Name	Gender (Boy)	Nombre
1	JULIEN	Boy	184,824
2	JEREMY	Boy	87,472
3	JONATHAN	Boy	83,740
4	JEROME	Boy	51,955
5	JEAN	Boy	34,743
6	JORDAN	Boy	31,585
7	JEAN-BAPTISTE	Boy	20,152
8	JIMMY	Boy	19,106
9	JOHAN	Boy	16,573
10	JEREMIE	Boy	15,778

Generation Z (1997 – 2012) : Girls

French-GIRLS-names-that-start-with-J-Generation-Z

Rank	First Name	Gender (Girl)	Nombre
1	JADE	Girl	56,652
2	JULIE	Girl	51,127
3	JULIETTE	Girl	42,209
4	JUSTINE	Girl	37,992
5	JEANNE	Girl	30,564
6	JULIA	Girl	20,372
7	JESSICA	Girl	9,216
8	JOHANNA	Girl	5,879
9	JOSEPHINE	Girl	5,619
10	JENNIFER	Girl	4,525

Generation Z (1997 – 2012) : Boys

French-BOYS-names-that-start-with-J-Generation-Z

Rank	First Name	Gender (Boy)	Nombre
1	JULES	Boy	48,407
2	JULIEN	Boy	47,633
3	JEREMY	Boy	20,647
4	JORDAN	Boy	20,373
5	JEAN	Boy	14,995
6	JONATHAN	Boy	13,400
7	JASON	Boy	9,563
8	JOHAN	Boy	8,933
9	JULIAN	Boy	7,720
10	JORIS	Boy	7,334

Generation ALPHA (2013 – today) : Girls

French-GIRLS-names-that-start-with-J-Generation-ALPHA

Rank	First Name	Gender (Girl)	Nombre
1	JADE	Girl	36,827
2	JULIA	Girl	20,498
3	JULIETTE	Girl	19,425
4	JEANNE	Girl	17,088
5	JUSTINE	Girl	5,593
6	JULIE	Girl	5,182
7	JOSÉPHINE	Girl	4,352
8	JOY	Girl	3,889
9	JENNA	Girl	3,769
10	JASMINE	Girl	3,247

Generation ALPHA (2013 – today) : Boys

French-BOYS-names-that-start-with-J-Generation-ALPHA

Rank	First Name	Gender (Boy)	Nombre
1	JULES	Boy	37,731
2	JOSEPH	Boy	7,075
3	JEAN	Boy	6,830
4	JULIAN	Boy	5,195
5	JOSHUA	Boy	3,844
6	JULIEN	Boy	3,359
7	JOHAN	Boy	3,288
8	JAYDEN	Boy	3,262
9	JONAS	Boy	3,119
10	JAMES	Boy	3,051

Video To see (YouTube)

If you want to listen to the pronunciation of first names beginning with J (girls and boys) and see how they are spelled, you can watch this short video (about 1 minute) :

French Names That Start With J : Pronunciation To Listen (Mp3)

If you only want to listen to the pronunciation, you can listen to this audio file (mp3) :

French Names That Start With J : PDF To Print

Please download the most popular French names that start with J (girls and boys) in PDF format to print :

French-Names-That-Start-With-J-FrenchWin Download

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