Names of Guadeloupe GP

INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) records Inaya as the commonest given name in Guadeloupe; the names that most distinguish Guadeloupe from the rest of the world are Francois, Lucien and Alain.

Written in French.

Population
453K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
1.5K
BBuilt from 1 official register (2010), 1,461 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 Guadeloupe are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Guadeloupe included.

How names work in Guadeloupe

2 naming traditions are in use in Guadeloupe, 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 Guadeloupe

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe), 2024 — 82 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Inaya15—
2Jade10—
3Mia10—
4Mya10—
5Alix5—
6Aliyah5—
7Alma5—
8Alya5—
9Amalia5—
10Amalya5—
11Amara5—
12Ambre5—
13Amélia5—
14Anaya5—
15Anayah5—
16Anaë5—
17Anna5—
18Ava5—
19Cataleya5—
20Chiara5—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe)'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 971 (Guadeloupe) 2010Across all recordslucas: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. lucasnot rankedethan: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. ethannot rankedmathis: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. mathisnot rankednathan: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. nathannot rankednoah: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. noahnot rankedmathys: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. mathysnot rankednolan: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. nolannot rankeddylan: 8 → 123 · ranks lower across all records8. dylan123mael: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. maelnot rankedalexandre: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. alexandrenot rankedanthony: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. anthonynot rankedenzo: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. enzonot rankedgabriel: 13 → 126 · ranks lower across all records13. gabriel126kylian: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. kyliannot rankedmathias: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. mathiasnot rankedmathéo: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. mathéonot rankednolhan: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. nolhannot rankedsamuel: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. samuelnot rankedthomas: 19 → 49 · ranks lower across all records19. thomas49yanis: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. yanisnot rankedandy: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. andynot rankedbryan: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. bryannot rankeddavid: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. davidnot rankedilan: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. ilannot rankedjohan: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. johannot ranked
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INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe), 2010 on the left; every record we hold for Guadeloupe 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 Guadeloupe

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Guadeloupe 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.

FrancoisLucienAlainClaudeChristianPatriceJacquesGuyJean-ClaudeOlivierGerardFranceliseThierryJacquelineDidierMaryseFredRobertPatriciaCharlesMaxJocelyneNicoleJulienneJean-LucAntoineCatherineJulesMauriceCamilleGilbertPascalBrunoRaymondDeniseFrancianeMarie-LineFabriceFelixWillyAntoinetteJustinLouiseVictoireJean-PierreEdouardMartheJean-MarcJonathanKettyRoseJulienChristophePauleHubertMichelineFranckSylvieHuguesEddy
Sized by how much of the difference between Guadeloupe's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

MarieJeanneFrançoiseCatherinePatricia19002023355
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe), 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

Francoisgiven name●
Christiangiven name●
Alaingiven name●
Claudegiven name●
Luciengiven name●
The best-attested names in Guadeloupe, 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 971 (Guadeloupe)2024headline (given)

    Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). Counts: residents. given. 384 forms. 1900–2024. Licence: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab).

    What we know about this register

    French overseas department 971. 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 Guadeloupe?
Lucas, according to INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) (2010), with 40 bearers recorded among boys.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Guadeloupe?
Because they count different people. INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) (2010) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Lucas. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Francois. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Guadeloupe?
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 Guadeloupe”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/GP (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe).