Best french boys names

6 ELO points separate Raphael from Liam at the top of the Boy Names ranking, after 4021 duels.

The podium reflects tight competition, with Raphael at 1339 ELO points edging out Liam by just 6 points, while Noah follows at 1326. The sharpest drop appears below the podium: 59 ELO points separate Noah in third place from Louis in fourth, marking the most decisive gap in the ranking. Raphael wins 62% of its duels, the highest win rate among the top contenders, while Liam draws its strength from volume with 140 duels. Leo rounds out the top five at 1256 ELO points with a 57% win rate across 136 duels. At the bottom, Mohamed struggles at 1003 ELO with a 28% win rate over 90 duels, suggesting the community holds strong preferences when it comes to boy names. Adam sits just above at 1099 ELO, and Hugo at 1112 ELO closes the bottom three.

This ranking emerges from 4021 duels involving 74 players who compared 20 contenders, updated on 11 October 2026. The tight margins at the top and the wide gap below the podium reveal how the community splits between clear favorites and less popular choices. Cast your own vote to shift the balance and shape the ranking.

Updated on October 11, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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