Given name & surname
Narcisse
Narcisse is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Narcisse is a variant of Narcissa. An origin associated with Narcissa is Greek. Narcisse is a variant of Narcissus. Narcissus has been associated with Greek and English naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Latin Narcissus, from Ancient Greek Νάρκισσος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Narcisse is a variant of Narcissus. The history of Narcissus gives this family its wider story. Narcissus’s Christian associations include Saint Narcissus, a bishop of Jerusalem in 195.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Narcisse through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1993. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 210 as a first name in 2020; 2,841 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Narcisse’s family of names
Narcisse developed from Narcissus. Narcisse has a related form in Narcissa. Narcisse has a related form in Narcissus.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Narcisse
- Narcisse Virgilio DíazFrench painter (1807-1876)
- Narcisse-Achille de SalvandyFrench politician (1795-1856)
- Narcisse Théophile PatouillardFrench mycologist (1854-1926)
- Narcisse BambaraGhanaian footballerborn 1989
- Narcisse YaméogoBurkinabé footballerborn 1980
- Narcisse GirardFrench violinist, conductor and composer (1797–1860)
- Narcisse QuellienFrench anthropologist, poet and writer (1848-1902)
- Narcisse FournierFrench journalist, novelist and playwright1803–1880
- Narcisse EkangaCameroonian footballerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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