43 Chic French Names That Start With S: A Complete List

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

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

I’ve sorted the 10 most popular French first names (boys and girls) starting with S 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 S in an YouTube video, MP3 and pdf file below (end of the post).

Most Popular French Names Starting With S : 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 : Sylvie is the most popular GIRL first name that start with S between 1946 and 1964 with 188,407 girls born with the first name “Sylvie”.

Sylviane is the second most popular GIRL first name that beginning with S given to baby boomers (1946 – 1964) with 277,842 births.

…etc

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

Rank	First Name	Gender	Nombre
1	SYLVIE	Girl	188,407
2	SYLVIANE	Girl	37,645
3	SIMONE	Girl	25,202
4	SOPHIE	Girl	24,831
5	SOLANGE	Girl	21,672
6	SUZANNE	Girl	20,485
7	SABINE	Girl	15,081
8	SYLVETTE	Girl	9,496
9	SONIA	Girl	8,974
10	SYLVIA	Girl	6,233

Baby Boomers (1946 – 1964) : Boys

How to read the graph ?

ex : Serge is the most popular BOY first name that start with S between 1946 and 1964 with 123,392 girls born with the first name “Serge”.

Stéphane is the second most popular BOY first name that beginning with S given to baby boomers (1946 – 1964) with 28,340 births.

…etc

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

Rank	First Name	Gender	Nombre
1	SERGE	Boy	123,392
2	STÉPHANE	Boy	28,340
3	SYLVAIN	Boy	17,751
4	SIMON	Boy	3,421
5	STEPHAN	Boy	2,007
6	SAID	Boy	1,842
7	STANISLAS	Boy	1,627
8	SALVATORE	Boy	1,487
9	SAMUEL	Boy	1,403
10	SÉBASTIEN	Boy	963

Generation X (1965 – 1980) : Girls

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

Rank	First Name	Gender	Nombre
1	SANDRINE	Girl	202,380
2	SYLVIE	Girl	160,546
3	STÉPHANIE	Girl	155,000
4	SOPHIE	Girl	128,696
5	SANDRA	Girl	62,920
6	SEVERINE	Girl	61,580
7	SONIA	Girl	40,747
8	SABINE	Girl	38,788
9	SABRINA	Girl	35,126
10	SARAH	Girl	14,527

Generation X (1965 – 1980) : Boys

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

Rank	First Name	Gender	Nombre
1	STÉPHANE	Boy	228,196
2	SÉBASTIEN	Boy	176,796
3	SYLVAIN	Boy	59,944
4	SERGE	Boy	25,200
5	SAMUEL	Boy	23,093
6	STEVE	Boy	7,389
7	STEPHAN	Boy	7,177
8	SAMIR	Boy	4,732
9	SIMON	Boy	4,529
10	SAID	Boy	4,135

Generation Y (1981 – 1996) : Girls

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

Rank	First Name	Gender	Nombre
1	STÉPHANIE	Girl	74,135
2	SOPHIE	Girl	67,184
3	SARAH	Girl	61,744
4	SABRINA	Girl	51,917
5	SANDRA	Girl	34,576
6	SANDRINE	Girl	30,853
7	SONIA	Girl	25,257
8	SEVERINE	Girl	16,599
9	SOLÈNE	Girl	12,954
10	SAMANTHA	Girl	10,024

Generation Y (1981 – 1996) : Boys

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

Rank	First Name	Gender	Nombre
1	SÉBASTIEN	Boy	109,548
2	SYLVAIN	Boy	43,431
3	STÉPHANE	Boy	42,575
4	SIMON	Boy	29,124
5	SAMUEL	Boy	23,754
6	STEVEN	Boy	19,636
7	STEVE	Boy	12,009
8	SAMIR	Boy	8,575
9	SOFIANE	Boy	7,945
10	STEEVE	Boy	5,659

Generation Z (1997 – 2012) : Girls

Rank	First Name	Gender	Nombre
1	SARAH	Girl	73,649
2	SOLÈNE	Girl	15,191
3	SALOMÉ	Girl	14,500
4	SARA	Girl	13,061
5	SOPHIE	Girl	11,588
6	SOFIA	Girl	10,668
7	SABRINA	Girl	7,195
8	STELLA	Girl	7,048
9	SHANA	Girl	6,128
10	SALMA	Girl	5,683

Generation Z (1997 – 2012) : Boys

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

Rank	First Name	Gender	Nombre
1	SIMON	Boy	29,522
2	SAMUEL	Boy	28,823
3	SACHA	Boy	25,929
4	SOFIANE	Boy	12,583
5	SÉBASTIEN	Boy	12,439
6	STEVEN	Boy	11,177
7	SAMY	Boy	8,047
8	SAMI	Boy	6,370
9	SYLVAIN	Boy	5,862
10	STÉPHANE	Boy	4,968

Generation ALPHA (2013 – today) : Girls

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

Rank	First Name	Gender	Nombre
1	SARAH	Girl	17,334
2	SOFIA	Girl	11,223
3	SOLINE	Girl	6,288
4	SARA	Girl	5,768
5	SALOMÉ	Girl	5,253
6	SELMA	Girl	3,826
7	STELLA	Girl	3,632
8	SOPHIA	Girl	3,516
9	SUZANNE	Girl	3,493
10	SIRINE	Girl	3,419

Generation ALPHA (2013 – today) : Boys

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

Rank	First Name	Gender	Nombre
1	SACHA	Boy	25,777
2	SAMUEL	Boy	13,776
3	SIMON	Boy	12,477
4	SOAN	Boy	8,261
5	SOHAN	Boy	8,175
6	SASHA	Boy	5,483
7	SANDRO	Boy	5,136
8	SAMY	Boy	3,422
9	SOFIANE	Boy	3,128
10	SAMI	Boy	2,882

Video To see (YouTube)

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

French Names That Start With S : 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 S : PDF To Print

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

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

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