French boys names - need help for the final list please

[ImpYCelyn]

We've trawled through our name books and finally got a list down to 16, which is now down to 7. But we just can't seem to whittle it down from there. In alphabetical order we're left with:

Amaury
Aymeric
Célian
Corentin
Mayeul
Thibault
Yvain

We ruled out Aurélien, Emilien and Titien as DS1's name ends -ien, and we don't want to feel like we're stuck in a pattern if we have a DS3 in the future. But Aurélien and Titien were the top contenders until then.

Any takers?

TIA :)

(And then I might ask about the 12 girls names we're trying to pick from in the unlikely event it turns out to be DD1 - aargh!)

Wot no Welsh names!

Thibault is great though

I love Corentin and Thibault but I am french so I have no idea how to pronounce them with an english accent.

Think it depends on the language of the country you'll be living in tbh. I loved Benoit, Ettienne and Laurent for our half French ds, but we live in Yorkshire, and they sound VERY different in the dialect here! :o

My favourites are Corentin and Aymeric.

Oh, and I love Xavier, but again it doesn't translate well!

From your list I like Corentin best.

I'm not actually Welsh - it's a character from a Terry Pratchett book. I might have to add a little tag to my name for that :) And I only chose it so I could be ImpYCelynAndTheIvy at Christmas, and no one noticed :(

I do love Welsh names, but I think it's a bit strange to use them if you're not, iyswim.

Although, my Dad's family are Welsh and I sneakily got DH to ok Arwen as middle name on those grounds - it helped that he's never read the Lord of the Rings :o

I prefer Maury to Amaury personally.

All the others I really like!

DS2 will spend either 4 months or 16 months living in England, then we're back to France (fingers crossed), so it'll be for French usage with occasional butchering by English family and friends - but they're managing fine with DS1's name.

Corentin and Thibault are looking strong, thanks :)

cobweb we had Xavier on the list last time, but have gone off it a little bit this time, not sure why.

I wouldn't use a name with an accent if I wasn't living in France

How about
Yannick,
Loic
Luc
Marc
Tanguy
Stephane

I like Thibault btw

Have you thought of Blaise? That's my fave French boy's name.

Sorry, not keen on any of those Sneezeblossom (actually, I quite like Loic, but it's DH's cousin's name).

33 DH almost died when I suggested Blaise, he said it's not at all cool for a name. If we were going to live in the UK though I might have got away with it.

I am not sure. I don't know how to pronounce them. Do you live in France then?
I like Aurelien the most.

I like Thibault and Corentin. I also love Aurélien but I am an Aurélie (middle name) so I'm biased :).

We will be living in France for most of DS's life, but he'll be born in the UK.

RE pronouncing them - in the UK we've always thought that it's a bit of an ask to use a name that most people have never heard before and then expect them to get in right :) And DH and I pronounce them slightly differently anyway - DS1 doesn't seem bothered.

I suppose in English they're nearest to:

Amaury - Amor-ry
Aymeric - Aim-er-ric
Célian - Sell-ee-on
Corentin - Coron-tan
Mayeul - My-yearl (like Earl Spencer)
Thibault - Tee-beau
Yvain - Ee-van

Sorry, I'm not very good at doing things phonetically, but those seem like reasonable approximations of French pronunciation in an English accent, iyswim.

Indith I think Aurélien will be the top choice for a DS3. DS1 is already a Roman emperor though, so we didn't want to have them one after the other, and then have to explain to a 3rd why he didn't merit an emperor's name; or have to call him Vespasien :o

Aurélie is lovely too, I used to have a friend called that.

you mean you don't want a trio of Roman emperors? Why ever not?

:o

There are worse things I suppose.

But if we ever got a DS4 we'd be down to Nero... :o

Definitely seems to be Corentin and Thibault taking the lead.

I've scrapped Célian and Yvain for good anyway. I would get rid of Amaury, but DH loves it.

Thibault is lovely. Not keen on the others, sorry

I like them all but my absolute favourite there is ....

Aymeric

they are all gorgeous. i love Benoit and Sebastien, but from your list would go for thibault or corentin

Thibault

dementedma his middle name will be Sébastien :)

I think Thibault has the most votes, then Corentin, then Aymeric. I'll let DH know, we're hoping to pick one this weekend - he likes to be able to call the bump by a name.

Thanks everyone :)

I think that Aymeric has the best chance of not being mangled by English people who are unused to French names.

I like Corentin and Thibault. I remember in primary school there was a boy in my class called Thibault. I don't think any of us had any idea how to spell it but once we were told how to say it, it didn't cause any bother for him (although I don't think he spoke any English at all so he probably couldn't have adequately complained, anyway).

Aymeric!!

So beautiful, I wish I had a link to France so I could use it :)