French boys names

[NewMrsCharles]

Hello all! Not even pregnant yet as you may have seen from the JS forums but we have been thinking about names already and have been really drawn to french boys names but could they also end up sounding pretentious?

Ideas/Opinons/Favs please MN!

Sebastian
Xavier
Louis
Francois

Thanks all x

[midnightexpress]

Love love love Xavier, not so keen on the others. Do you have any French family?

[DrivenToDistraction]

Jules

[missytequila]

i love etienne and olivier

[JimmyTarbuck]

I love Sylvain.

[NiceCuppaT]

Sebastian is lovely and not too French if you don't have any French connection?
If you do I love Claude!
All names sound better in French though!

[pippibluestocking]

Fabian

[GladioliBuckets]

French spelling is Sébastien.

How about Louen?

[NewMrsCharles]

Oh thanks all!

That why im a little worried about it as no French connect desides a love of the place, tastes, languageand people I have known. We didnt pick them on purpose: has anyone else just seamed to find a link like that?

[theagedparent]

Etienne is lovely

[sharbieinbackofthequattro]

I like Pascal is that French??

[ilovemydogandMrObama]

Lucien

[claire196]

Emile

[thirtysomething]

Antoine and Pierre are my all-time faves

Louis and Sebastien are both fine in both languages so may work best if you have no French connections though.

[allyfe]

Sebastian
Xavier

Like both, not really keen on Louis or Francois. Have never known any french Louis's or Francois, you don't really want to give them a hideously unpopular name in France if it's french I'd say. I knew a French Kevin (would be early 30's now) which I always found a bit odd, although not to the French.

Think Sebastian is the best cross over name, but then I really like the name and love Seb.

[ChickenInABasket]

Love love Emil (e)!

[Magalyxyz]

I like Arnaud. That's one of the few I would have considered using.

Kevin is popular in Italy too

[Magalyxyz]

Pierre too actually. That doesn't seem too unusable for a non-French person.

[BarkisIsWilling]

Go native and call him something like Louis-Francois

How about Yannick or Loic?

[Pasiphae]

Armand, Bertrand, Eudes, Ferdinand, Corentin, Basil, Baltazar, Ludovic, Bastien, Baptistin, Isidore, Auxence, Baudouin, Mathurin, Titouan, Tanguy, Gautier, Gabin, Mayeul, Gonzague?

[annasophia]

Top 20 French boys's names:

Lucas
Theo
Thomas
Hugo
Enzo
Maxime
Clement
Leo
Antoine
Alexandre
Mathis
Louis
Quentin
Alexis
Romain
Tom
Nicolas
Nathan
Baptiste
Paul

[mopsyflopsy]

Love Xavier, Quentin and Louis.

[Poohbearsmom]

jerome?

[FingonTheValiant]

Maxime is fab, French dh really wants it.

Francois is not that common any more in France, and is seen as laughably old fashioned. Still fairly common in the feminine form though.

Louis is definitely on the rise, I know them aged under 5 and over 70 I would say.

There are a surprisingly large number of Kevins and Brians walking around France, it was very trendy to give your children English names about 25-30 years ago according to dh.

Maybe have a look at the names from Brittany, like BarkisIsWilling suggests. They are super trendy in France, and often can be similar to Welsh names.

[cowboylover]

Thanks all, I wont mention Baptiste is popular as I have said a definate no to Jean-Baptiste!