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!)

Ds has a French Edgar in class at nursery v sweet boy

My comments -- well you did ask, feel free to ignore

Amaury - ok but a bit too old-fashioned for me
Aymeric - quite like it I find 'ic' names are good strong male names
Célian - problem with accented names is when the accent is dropped for whatever reason it looks wrong; also soft c can cause problems
Corentin - not bad but maybe more a little boy name with 'in ' ending? (although Quentin sounds fine yet is another -in name, go figure)
Mayeul - I'd be worried about teasing "ta gueule"
Thibault - my favourite though English speakers will struggle with 'th' part
Yvain - 'ain' is a real problem in English, my father is Alain and it gets mangled

While I'm French I'm reading these through an English phonetic filter --
as this will be primarily a French child living in France it's up to you really. I do think for the name to be relatively easy phonetically would be a plus - not just for relatives but as the child grows up if he does interact with non-French (not just English) speakers it makes it easier all round. My own name is very French but easy phonetically so that's fine, I spell it out first time then no problem. But don't let me put you off - your choice!

ps- ran into a very cool French name recently which I'd never heard and can't even find on French name websites: Fidegnon (with accent) - which actually breaks all the above rules...

Thanks everyone.

And thank you CultureMix for doing them one by one - that was really helpful. We hadn't thought about "ta gueule", but that's a really good point.

We've decided to pick between Thibault and Aymeric, so we're going to try them out this weekend (and probably until DS2 arrives as we're both indecisive :) ).

Fidegnon is spectacular, I've never encountered that anywhere!