In France do people still stick with all-French names or do they diversify like England or America?

Question

In France do people still stick with all-French names or do they diversify like England or America?

Answer 1

The law that forbid the use of names not in the French list of saints was repealed a long long time ago, you find now French born people with foreign names - other than the ones coming from their own culture I mean. For a time Kevin was very popular for example.

There is still a law that forbid to give children names tending on the ridiculous or which would make the child the laughingstock of his class.

Answer 2

No, now,

to us in France, the Moslem names are very fashionable...=(

( 17 %...welcome on Arabic-France...)

Answer 3

Yes.  French is spoken in 49 countries, including Moslem ones.  So, among the French speaking world, Abdul (for example) is as traditional and commonplace as Jean Pierre.  So I would say that the overwhelming majority of French names remain traditional.

What the French tend not to give their children the ridiculous hybrid and non-existent names now being invented in US and, to a lesser extent, in UK.  Nor do they use surnames as first names.  So there aren't many children called Flowerpot, Henna-Banjo or Renault LeBlanc III.

Breton names like Loic and Yannick seem popular.  Though not from the French language, they are traditional in France.