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Balbin m Croatian (Rare), French, Polish
Croatian, French and Polish form of Balbinus.

Balian m German (Modern, Rare), Medieval French, French (Modern, Rare), Popular Culture
Meaning uncertain. This is most known for being the name of Balian of Ibelin (c. 1140-1193), a lord of the Crusader state of Jerusalem.... [more]

Balsamie f French (Quebec, Rare, Archaic), French (Rare, Archaic)
Cognate of Balsamia.

Banard m French (Rare), Breton (Rare)
Variant of Barnard or Bernard.

Baptistin m French, Provençal
French diminutive of Baptiste and Provençal diminutive of Baptista.

Barbelle f French (Swiss, Archaic)
Diminutive of Barbe (compare also Bärbel).

Barberine f French

Barnabée f French (Rare)
Feminine version of Barnabé.

Bartélémi m French (Rare), Louisiana Creole (Rare)
Variant of Barthélémy.

Bartélemy m French (Rare), Louisiana Creole (Rare)
Variant of Barthélémy.

Barthéléme m French (Quebec, Archaic), French (Cajun, Rare, Archaic)
Variant of Barthélémy.

Barthélemi m French (Rare, Archaic), French (Belgian)
Variant of Barthélémy.

Bartimée m Biblical French, French (Rare)
French form of Bartimaeus.

Basch m French (Swiss, Archaic)
Short form of Baschtian, an obsolete form of Bastian.

Basilide m French, Italian
French and Italian form of Basileides via its latinized form Basilides.

Basilie f Louisiana Creole, French (Acadian), French (Rare, Archaic)
Feminine form of Basile.

Basilien m French (Rare, Archaic), Louisiana Creole (Rare, Archaic)
French form of Basilianus.

Basilique m & f French (Archaic), French (Acadian, Archaic), French (Quebec, Archaic), History (Ecclesiastical)
French form of Basiliscus which was also used as a feminine form of this name.

Basilisse f History (Ecclesiastical, Gallicized), French (Quebec, Archaic), French (Acadian, Archaic)
French form of Basilissa.

Bassirou m French (African)

Bastienne f French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), Flemish (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
Truncated form of Sébastienne.

Bastin m French
Variant of Bastien or short form of Sébastin.

Bastina f French, Spanish (Rare)

Bathylle f French (Rare)
Extremely rare variant of Bathilde.

Batisse m Walloon, Picard
Walloon and Picard form of Baptiste.

Batiste m French (Modern), French (Belgian)
Variant of Baptiste.

Batistin m French (Rare), Provençal
Variant of Baptistin.

Baudoin m French
French form of Balduin.

Baudouine f French (Rare)
Feminine form of Baudouin.

Baudry m Medieval French, French (Belgian)
Variant form of Baldéric via the form Baudric.

Bazile m Norman, African American, French (Cajun), American (South)
Norman cognate of Basil 1.

Béa f French (Rare)
Short form of Béatrice, hardly ever used as a given name in its own right.

Béat m French (Archaic)
French form of Beatus.

Béata f French (Quebec)
Québécois form of Beata.

Béatriche f Norman
Norman form of Béatrice.

Béatrix f French
French form of Beatrix.

Beaudoin m Louisiana Creole, French (Quebec)
Variant of Baudoin.

Beausoleil m French (Cajun)
Joseph Broussard 1702-1765; also known as beausoleil. Leader of Acadian people of Nova Scotia.

Bébèr m Picard
Diminutive of any name ending in -bert.

Bédélia f French (Quebec, Archaic)
Québecois form of Bedelia.

Béliam m French (Quebec, Rare, Archaic)

Béline f French (Rare), Literature, Theatre, History
Gallicized form of Belina. It was used by Molière in his play 'The Imaginary Invalid' (1673) ('Le Malade imaginaire' in French), where it belongs to the wife of Argan.

Bélisaire m French (Rare, Archaic)
French form of Belisarius.

Bélise f French (Rare), Literature, Theatre
Gallicized form of Belisa. This name was used on one of the characters in Molière's play Les Femmes savantes (1672).

Bellerose f French
Means "Beautiful rose" in French.

Bellotte f Literature, French (Rare, Archaic)
Derived from French belle meaning "beautiful". This is the name of Laidronette's sister in Madame d'Aulnoy's fairy tale The Green Serpent.

Belmont m French
Transferred from the surname "Belmont."

Belvina f French (African)

Benaël m French, Breton
It might derive from the breton name Gwenael, formed by "gwenn", that means "white", the second part might be "maël", that means "prince", so the meaning is "white prince".

Bênard m Norman
Norman form of Bernard.

Bênardin m Norman
Norman form of Bernardin.

Bénédict m French (Quebec, Archaic), Jèrriais
Québecois variant and Jèrriais form of Benedict.

Beneît m Norman
Cotentinais Norman form of Benedict.

Bénigne f & m French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare)
French form of Benigna or Benignus.

Bénilde f & m French (Rare)
French form of Benilda.... [more]

Benoist m Medieval French, French
Medieval French form of Benedict. (Cf. Benoît.)

Bénoni m Norman
Norman form of Benoni.

Benoni m Biblical, French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), Flemish
From the Hebrew name בֶּן־אוֹנִי (Ben-'oniy) meaning "son of my sorrow". This was the original name of Benjamin ("son of the right hand"), whose father, Jacob, renamed him in Genesis 35:18 (the name Benoni having been given by his mother, Rachel).

Bénouet m Picard
Picard form of Benoît.

Benouét m Norman
Norman form of Benedict.

Bénouot m Picard
Picard form of Benoît.

Béranger m French (Rare), French (African)
French form of Berengar, now more common in French-speaking parts of Africa.

Bérangère f French, French (Belgian)
French form of Berengaria.

Bérard m French (Rare), Medieval French
French form of Berard.

Berchaire m French, Medieval French, History (Ecclesiastical)
French form of Berchar via Latinized form Bercharius

Berenilde f Portuguese (Brazilian), French (Rare)
Portuguese and French form of Bernhild.... [more]

Bérényss f French (Modern, Rare)
Variant of Bérénice.

Berguitta f French
French spelling of Bergita.... [more]

Bernadete f Portuguese, French (African)
Variant of Bernadette.

Bernadin m French (Rare), Provençal
Provençal form of Bernardin.

Bernarde f French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare)
Feminine form of Bernard. Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was the birth name of Saint Bernadette.

Bernardette f Maltese, French (Archaic), Dutch
Variant of Bernadette.

Bernardin m Medieval French, French, Lengadocian, Provençal, Venetian, Croatian
Diminutive of Bernard.

Bernette f French, English
Possibly French diminutive of Bernadette.

Bernoard m Germanic, French
Germanic variant of Bernward and French variant of Bernouard.

Berte f Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare), French (Rare)
Variant of Berta as well as a French variant of Berthe.

Bertheline f French (Archaic), French (Belgian, Archaic), French (Quebec, Archaic), Greenlandic (Rare), Danish (Archaic)
French diminutive of Berthe and Danish variant of Berteline.

Berthille f French, French (Belgian)
Variant of Bertille.

Berthoumine f Medieval French, French (Archaic)
Archaic southern French feminine form of Berthoumieu, a southern French form of Barthélémy.

Bertilde f Louisiana Creole, French (Rare, Archaic), Spanish (Latin American, Rare), History (Hispanicized)
French variant and Spanish form of Berthilde.

Bertile f French (Rare, Archaic)
Variant of Bertille.

Bertin m French (Quebec), French (Archaic), Provençal
French and Provençal form of Bertinus.

Bertine f Dutch, French (Rare), Norwegian, Flemish, Walloon
Diminutive of Berte as well as a short form of names ending in -bertine.

Bertrande f French (Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), Medieval French
Feminine form of Bertrand.

Béryl f & m French (Modern, Rare)
French form of Beryl.

Béryle f French (Modern, Rare)

Besançon m French (Swiss, Archaic)
From the surname Besançon. Besançon Hugues (1487-1532) was a Swiss political and religious leader who was a member of the Grand Council of Geneva.

Béthanie f French
French form of Bethany.

Bethléem f French (Archaic)
French form of Bethlehem, which is the name of the birthplace of Jesus Christ. It appears that the given name Bethléem has always been very rare. I came across it in the Belgian civil registry (when I was doing genealogical research), where Bethléem was the name of an 18th-century French-speaking Belgian woman who was married, had 8 children between 1729-1748 and ultimately died in 1779.

Bêtinet m Norman

Béto m French (Rare)
Short form of Élisabéto.

Bétry f French (Archaic)
Local variant of Béatrix found in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France up until the 1700s.

Bibiane f French (Rare), German (Rare), Dutch (Rare)
French, German and Dutch form of Bibiana.

Bibienne f French (African)
Variant of Vivienne.

Bienaimé m French (Rare)
Means "well-beloved" in French (compare Aimé, Buonamico).

Bienvenu m French
French form of Benvenuto.

Bienvenue f French (Archaic)
Feminine form of Bienvenu.

Biette f French (Rare), Medieval French, History
Perhaps from Bietta, the Romansch form of Beata. ... [more]

Binjamin m Picard
Picard form of Benjamin.

Blais m French
Variant of Blaise

Blaisie f French (Archaic), French (African, Rare), Filipino (Rare)
French form of Blasia and feminine form of Blaise.

Blaisine f French (Rare)
Feminine form of Blaise.

Blésille f French (Rare, Archaic), History (Ecclesiastical)
French form of Blaesilla.

Bleuette f French (Rare), Haitian Creole
Variant of Bluette.

Bllauche f Norman
Cotentinais Norman form of Blanche.

Blondell f French
Means "little blonde one".

Bluette f French (Swiss, Rare), French (Belgian, Rare), French (Archaic)
Derived from French bluet, a variant of bleuet, "cornflower".

Bohémond m French, Medieval French
French form of Bohemond via Latinized form Boemundus.

Boleslas m French
Variant of Bolesław.

Bonaparte m Italian (Rare), French (Rare)
Variant and French form of Buonaparte.

Boson m French (Archaic)
French form of Boso. A known bearer of this name was Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord (1832-1910), a French nobleman and prince of Sagan.

Botulphe m French, Medieval French
French form of Botulf.

Bouone f Norman
Cotentinais Norman form of Bonne.

Bouonot m Norman

Bourcard m French (Archaic)
French form of Burkhard found in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region up until the 1700s.

Briac m French, Breton
From a Brythonic name derived from the Celtic element *brigo "high, noble, mighty". As such this name can be viewed as a Breton cognate of Brian. In the case of Saint Briac, who arrived in Brittany with Saint Tugdual circa 548, this was a short form of the old Welsh name Briafael.

Briand m French (Rare)
Gallicized form of Brient.

Brieuc m French, French (Belgian), History (Ecclesiastical)
Gallicized form of Briog.

Brigide f French (Rare), French (Quebec)
Variant of Brigitte.

Briséis f Greek Mythology (Gallicized), French (Modern, Rare), French (Belgian, Modern, Rare)
French form of Briseis.

Brithney f French (Modern, Rare)
French borrowing of Britney.

Bromère m French
French form of Bromerus.

Bronislas m Medieval Slavic (Gallicized), French
French form of Bronisław, via its Latinized form Bronislaus.

Brune f French, Judeo-French
Cognate of Bruna.

Bruneau m French (Rare)
Variant of Bruno.

Brunette f French (Rare), Haitian Creole
Diminutive of Brune.

Brunon m Polish, French, Lengadocian, Provençal, Gascon
Variant of Bruno based on the genitive form of the Latin declination.

Brunone f French (Archaic)
Feminine form of Brunon found in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region up until the 1700s.

Bruyère f French (Rare, Archaic)

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