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To be honest, I can't see any of these names becoming popular in America anytime soon. Not that many Americans speak French, and a lot of Americans think that we're all named Jacques, Pierre, Jacqueline, Michelle, and Fifi. (The last one is a nickname only, yet I've never met a single person named Fifi even as a nickname.) Americans aren't familiar enough with contemporary French culture for names to be popular there. For example, I've never heard of a single American named Florian, a name ultra-popular in my age group.

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I hate Lilou. There's way too many little French girls with this name. Two of my cousins named their daughters Lilou. I'm also sick of Louna and Mathis.

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Bastian is usually spelled Bastien here.

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I've never seen Elize used here.

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Kylian's actually pretty common here. There's two at my school in the grade below me.

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Kais is not a French name, it's an Arabic name, specifically from the Maghreb. A lot of the names on the popularity charts (such as Rayan, Ilyas, Sami, Inaya, Anissa, and Kenza) are mostly used by North Africans, not ethnic Frenchmen. We have tons of North African here - I have quite a few friends of North African heritage. I knew a guy named Kais a few years ago - he was Tunisian.

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Marielle is definitely old-fashioned here.

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I have a cousin named Leandre.

This message was edited 11/10/2015, 3:23 PM