About names in France
French naming law only lifted most of its restrictions on given names in 1993 — before that, French parents were largely required to choose from an official list of approved names, mostly saints' names and other traditional French names, with a mayor able to reject a name deemed not to be in the child's interest. A cultural preference for names that read clearly as French has persisted even as the legal rules loosened, and a notable recent trend has been the return of "grandparent generation" names — Louise and Jules are good examples — after decades in which they were considered old-fashioned by French parents naming children in the mid-twentieth century.
Names covered for France on this page
This page currently covers 138 names for France as missing-letter worksheets — 67 boy names and 71 girl names — including Aara, Aaradhya, Aaron, each already rendered and ready to print below, split by gender.
Using a France missing-letter worksheet
Print at full size, hand a child a pencil, and let them fill in each row's blank at their own pace. Getting one row wrong doesn't affect the rest of the page, so it's fine to work through it out of order or come back to a harder row later.