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French boy names/ boy names that work on French

33 replies

alittleconversation · 28/08/2021 12:33

Please help us name our baby boy who is currently nameless at a few weeks old!

We have French heritage but live in the UK. We would like names that work in French but aren't super French iyswim. For example, we like Thibault but it seems very French for a child who is likely to live in the UK for good.

Otherwise our top names are Felix and Caspar (not Gaspard). We like them but they seem a little trendy (esp caspar, plus cass sounds like the word 'to break' in French).

So please help us with any suggestions you have! Thanks!

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Twilightstarbright · 28/08/2021 12:58

Dual Fr/UK household here. We have:

Hugo, Sebastien (often misspelt), Raphael, Xavier, Louis, Christophe.

LakeShoreD · 28/08/2021 12:56

We’re a French/English family and we know quite a few more. A few of the boys I know are:
Felix
Hugo
Louis
Max
Gaspard (here this all the time outside the bilingual nursery, it’s clearly very popular even in London)
Leopold
Olivier
Sebastian
Nathan
Arthur

Classica · 28/08/2021 12:50

I love Thibault!

Thierry? Most people know how to pronounce it due to the handsome M Henry

Raphael
Rémy
Maxime
Gabriel
Adrien
Emanuel

timeisnotaline · 28/08/2021 12:49

Those are all French boys/men I know. I’m not French.

vitaminC · 28/08/2021 12:48

Just like the UK, in France a lot of older names are currently back in fashion.

Felix is a great name, but I'm also starting to see:
Armand
Léopold
Gabriel
Lucien
Alban
Gustave
Jules
Mayeul
Sacha
Amaury

Also, I wouldn't worry about "Cass" - i know quite a few girls called Cassandre/Cassandra and it doesn't seem to be a problem.

timeisnotaline · 28/08/2021 12:48

Quentin
Clement
Stephan
Sebastien
Max
Victor
Bernard
Charles

Fauvist · 28/08/2021 12:41

Sebastien
Arthur
George(s)
Hugo
Luc
Pascal
Gabriel
Louis
Noah

There are some pronunciation differences between the two languages for some of these but they are all very recognisable to speakers of either language.

Cuddlemuffin · 28/08/2021 12:39

Louis, Olivier, Sebastien, Grégoire, Luca, Marcel x

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