Thoughts of the name Estile for a boy?

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I quite like the name and would probably spell it Estille or Astille. What are your thoughts? And yes I did get the idea from Lisa Moorish who named her son Astile. I know its not to everyone's liking but I've grown to love it.

Estille sounds like the girls name Estelle. Astile sounds a bit too much like ass for my liking but if slebs are using the name it might become mainstream.

How do you pronounce it - and who on earth is Lisa Whotsit?

Pete Doherty's bad tattoo on his spotty sweaty neck

Sorry

Its pronounced Ah-Steal. lol if I describe who Lisa Moorish is it will just sound terrible.

It's lovely

Astala?

Not good, sorry. It sounds like 'I steal'. Plus, I wouldn't take inspiration from Pete Doherty in naming a baby.

Is it a real name? I read that Pete Doherty made it up from a mish mash of letters from the names Pete and Lisa (Moorish) his son's Mum.

Estile looks a bit like and sounds a lot like Estelle, so might be confused for a girl. Astile looks an sounds a bit less like Estelle.

Not a clue who the Lisa person is, but I wouldn't use it. It doesn't sound very masculine, or, indeed, very nice.

It's not a name.

And it sounds like something you would call a girl- which he will not thank you for.

I'm sorry, I know names are very personal but I too think that it's a very girly sounding name. I also think that pronunciation makes me think of arsehole - although that may be me being a bit of a potty mouth !!

Have you heard the song a boy named Sue?

Looking at your title I thought it was for a girl, not sure why, just has that feel about it- although, that would only be a problem until they 'look like a boy' instead of the unisex baby/ toddler stage..

All valid points. Does anyone have any suggestions for similar sounding names? Thanks.

Estil, Estille (and there are more variations) are all variations of the old French family name d'Estelle. When they left Southern France during the 16th and 17th century, they tended to drop the d'. The Estelles were some of the founding families of the United States (not called that then though).

So there is quite a lot of history to the name.

No. No no no.

It looks like a name for a yet to be invented electronic set of steps in a fence.

Attila?

Terrible

How about Emil?
Or emlyn
Sebastian nn bastian

Acrylic
Bar Estile is our local drinking pit....

Here are the top 100 baby names in France from 2006 for inspiration. You might want to ignore Kevin at 66

www.youcantcallitit.com/2010/04/21/top-100-french-baby-names/

Iestyn? Welsh name - pronounced 'yes-tin'. Sounds sort of similar.

No.

Sounds like a girl's name to me.