French ranks at #384 with 321 entries, registered as gender-neutral. This is almost certainly a registration artifact — owners filing licensing paperwork for French Bulldogs and entering the breed name (or part of it) where the pet's name belongs. The 321 entries reflect a paperwork pattern rather than 321 dogs actually called French.
The breed-as-name pattern
French sits in the same odd category as Havanese and Morkie — entries where the name field captured the breed designation instead of a given name. French Bulldogs are the most-licensed dog breed in major US cities, so the volume of paperwork-where-French-ended-up-as-the-name is naturally high.
What this signals
The Frenchie boom of the 2010s and 2020s shows up in chart data in unexpected ways. Beyond the actual common Frenchie names like Bella and Luna, the breed's outsized cultural footprint creates statistical artifacts like this entry. The breed page collects the genuine common picks for French Bulldogs.
If you actually want it as a name
French as a deliberate given name is rare but not impossible — owners occasionally pick it for the country reference (a dog named after a Paris vacation, a Francophile household) or for the sheer brevity. The single-syllable shape (FRENCH) is sharp and unusual, projection-friendly, and stands out at parks. The French baby name page shows it has essentially never registered as a human given name.