Names of French Guiana GF

INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana) records Inaya as the commonest given name in French Guiana; the names that most distinguish French Guiana from the rest of the world are Jonathan, Dylan and Jean-Marc.

Written in French.

Population
200K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
558
BBuilt from 1 official register (2024), 558 name forms in our corpus.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of French Guiana are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, French Guiana included.

How names work in French Guiana

2 naming traditions are in use in French Guiana, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in French Guiana

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana), 2024 — 154 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Inaya2569
2Eliana15112
3Abigaëlle10—
4Anaïs10—
5Ayla10—
6Iris10—
7Jade10—
8Kayla10—
9Kiara10—
10Kyara10—
11Luna10—
12Léa10—
13Mia10—
14Zoé10—
15Aaliyah5—
16Agatha5—
17Alaïa5—
18Alexia5—
19Alice5—
20Alicia5—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana) 2024Across all recordsethan: 1 → 6 · ranks lower across all records1. ethan6jayden: 2 → 49 · ranks lower across all records; one source only in our corpus2. jayden49maël: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. maëlnot rankednoah: 4 → 11 · ranks lower across all records4. noah11liam: 5 → 59 · ranks lower across all records; one source only in our corpus5. liam59ayden: 6 → 100 · ranks lower across all records; one source only in our corpus6. ayden100kayden: 7 → 115 · ranks lower across all records; one source only in our corpus7. kayden115kaïs: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. kaïsnot rankedevan: 9 → 60 · ranks lower across all records9. evan60gabriel: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. gabrielnot rankedkeylan: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. keylannot rankedmathéo: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. mathéonot rankednaël: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. naëlnot rankedraphaël: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. raphaëlnot rankedsamuel: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. samuelnot rankedaaron: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. aaronnot rankedadriel: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. adrielnot rankedarthur: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. arthurnot rankedaylan: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. aylannot rankedaylann: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. aylannnot rankedchristian: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. christiannot rankeddaniel: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. danielnot rankeddarwin: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. darwinnot rankededen: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. edennot rankedelijah: 25 → 137 · ranks lower across all records25. elijah137
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana), 2024 on the left; every record we hold for French Guiana on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of French Guiana

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when French Guiana holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

JonathanDylanJean-MarcEthanLoicJocelyneJean-LucNoahNathanEnzoJosianeJuniorLucasJean-ClaudeMaelAnaisRobertoRayanTatianaOceaneKylianAxelSteeveMarvinMaevaRaymondeJean-PaulAndyBryanJean-MichelMylene
Sized by how much of the difference between French Guiana's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

MarieNathalieSandrineStéphanieJeanne1900202345
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana), 1900–2024 (125 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Jonathangiven name●
Dylangiven name●
Loicgiven name●
Jean-Marcgiven name●
Ethangiven name●
The best-attested names in French Guiana, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana)2024headline (given)

    Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). Counts: residents. given. 251 forms. 1900–2024. Licence: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab).

    What we know about this register

    French overseas department 973. Extracted from INSEE national fichier des prenoms (etat civil / civil registry of births), departmental CSV. First names by sex and year of birth WITH COUNTS (rounded to nearest 5; names with <3 births bucketed as _PRENOMS_RARES_ and excluded). Mayotte (976) data begins 2012.

    Last verified 2026-06-09.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in French Guiana?
Ethan, according to INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana) (2024), with 35 bearers recorded among boys.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in French Guiana?
Because they count different people. INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana) (2024) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Ethan. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Jonathan. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in French Guiana?
No — 2 are described on this page (Afro-Caribbean, French), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of French Guiana”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/GF (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana).