Need names that work in France, Wales & Ireland

[Machin]

Any ideas? We're struggling.

Boys or girls?

Marie

Both.

Marie prn. MuRee or Maaree?

Megan , Fiona bronwyn, bronagh for girls
Boys
Gregroire , Gregor , David , john

Manon, Morgan, Cillian, Louis, there must be lots...

I like Fiona but sadly unusable.

Marie I really like but worried about pronounciation an d how it will travel.

Bronwyn's pretty but not sure I've ever heard it in France. I wonder what they would do with it?

Well, for boys, you could look at all the 6 Nation rugby players from the relevant nationalities for the last few years and see if any feature in all the lists

Nia
Ffion

Dylan
Torin

Luke
David
Stephen

Anna
Christina
Francesca

Oh just saw you can't use Fiona which probably vetoes Ffion as well!

You probably need to think Biblical / old fashioned?

Daniel
Saul
Noah
John
Philip
Michael

Rebekah
Salome
Sarah

I've found an awesome list of Freench internationals - they even had an Elvis!

More seriously, how about Julian/Julien, Sebastian, Christophe/r, Alexander, Olivier, Guy?

Ooo Guy is a great one.

Love Salome and Manon too. And Saul.

Tristan for a boy.

Isolde/Yseult for girl?

Ffion doesn't travel well between Ireland and Wales - too easily confused with Fionn (again, out for the same reasons). On the other hand Finn works well.

Classic names are good too - Daniel, David, Eleanore, Florence, Evelyn/Eveline and so on.

Patrick, Robert, Charles, Pierce/Piers, Roland, Benedict, Dominic, Frank (the French tend to spell it 'Franck'), Thomas, Joseph

Anne/Anna/Annette, Lucy/ie, Clarissa, Cora, Emma, Marion/Marianne, Elisabeth, Florence, Chloe, Agnes, Juliet/te, Clementine ....

Cross reference the top 100 for each country and that will show you the names that work for all. I live in a French speaking country and I'm Irish and my experience is that any traditional English name is usually fine here, equally any of the more common French names will be recognised in Ireland. However, traditional Irish names (I have one) and presumably traditional Welsh names are not known here and I spend a lot of time explaining mine.....

What about names from Brittany -they should share a linguistic heritage with Wales, and - at a bit of a distance - Ireland?

Here is a brief list www.behindthename.com/names/usage/breton
A longer one (boys) www.amethyst-night.com/names/bretonmale.html and girls www.amethyst-night.com/names/bretonfem.html

"Both.

Marie prn. MuRee or Maaree?"
Either. Whichever you preferred. I like muree personally.

I'm loving all Florascotia's suggestiions.

Kevin and Cillian/Killian both popular boys' names in France.

What about names from Brittany -they should share a linguistic heritage with Wales, and - at a bit of a distance - Ireland?

That's what we did in a similar situation.

Oh and for what it's worth I know one bicultural Bronwyn in France.

I think a Saul in France would be presumed to be very Jewish.

Isabelle and Louise.
Neither Welsh or Irish, but would definitely work with English speakers and in France too.