List of French Baby Names Meanings Starting with B

Burnett

(burn-ET)

Burnett is an English surname. It is derived from a nickname from the Old French burnete, brunette, which is a diminutive of brun meaning "brown", "dark brown". Another proposed origin of the name is from burnete, a high quality wool cloth originally dyed to a dark brown colour.

Meaning: Burned nettle Origin: French

Blanchard

(blohn-SHAHR)

Blanchard is a French family name. It is also used as a given name. It derives from the Old French word blanchart which meant “whitish, bordering upon white”. It is also an obsolete term for a white horse.

Meaning: White or fair Origin: French

Bleu

(BLEH)

The meaning of the name “Bleu” is: “Blue”. Categories: Color Names.

Meaning: The color blue Origin: French

Boone

(BOON)

Boone Name Meaning. English (of Norman origin): from a nickname meaning 'good', from Old French bon 'good'.

Meaning: A good person Origin: French

Boswell

(BOZ-wehl)

Boswell Name Meaning. Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Beuzeville in Seine Maritime, France, named with Old French Beuze (a personal name probably of Germanic origin) + ville 'settlement'.

Meaning: From Beuzeville Origin: English, French

Boyce

(BOIS)

Boyce Name Meaning. Scottish, northern Irish, and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a wood, from Old French bois 'wood'. English: patronymic from the Middle English nickname boy 'lad', 'servant', or possibly from an Old English personal name Boia, of uncertain origin.

Meaning: Living beside a wood Origin: English, French

Branch

(BRANCH)

Meanings and history of the name Branch: | Edit. English surname meaning "limb of a tree", derived from the Latin word branca, meaning "foot or paw". Famous real-life people named Branch: | Edit. Branch Rickey, MLB general manager who broke the color barrier in baseball by signing Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn ...

Meaning: Tree branch Origin: English, French

Bunyan

(BUN-yən)

Bunyan Name Meaning. English (Bedfordshire): nickname for someone disfigured by a lump or hump, from a diminutive of Old French bugne 'swelling', 'protuberance'. The term bugnon was also applied to a kind of puffed-up fruit tart, and so the surname may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a baker of these.

Meaning: A maker of patties Origin: English, French

Burrell

(bur-EL)

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold coarse woolen cloth, Middle English burel or borel (from Old French burel, a diminutive of b(o)ure); the same word was used adjectively in the sense 'reddish brown' and may have been applied as a nickname ...

Meaning: A countryman Origin: English, French

Butch

(BOOCH)

The name Butch is an American baby name. In American the meaning of the name Butch is: Butcher.

Meaning: Butcher Origin: English, French