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.

Written in French.

Population
200K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
26
BBuilt from 1 official register (2024), 26 name forms in our corpus.

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

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 children born in the year · authority tier 1
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana), 2024 — 154 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Inaya25—
2Eliana15—
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 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. ethannot rankedjayden: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. jaydennot rankedmaël: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. maëlnot rankednoah: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. noahnot rankedliam: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. liamnot rankedayden: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. aydennot rankedkayden: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. kaydennot rankedkaïs: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. kaïsnot rankedevan: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. evannot rankedgabriel: 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 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. elijahnot ranked
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.

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

Remiresurname(measured from records)
Saintsurname(measured from records)
Doesurname(measured from records)
Epelboinsurname(measured from records)
Nachersurname(measured from records)
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

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: 2026-10-09.

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 MXlle. 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://mondonomo.ai/names/GF (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana).