English-French baby boy

[Lorsee]

Hello!
We're having our first in a few weeks' time and I'd love your opinions on our shortlist of names. Dad's French, I'm British, we live in France but go to the UK often. We're not really bothered if the pronunciation differs in English and French (it always does).
So, which one do you prefer for a (hopefully) bilingual boy?
Isaac
Benjamin
Yoann (or Yohan, but the 'h' isn't pronounced)
Jonah
Thank you!

I like Jonah as a name, not that keen on Isaac or Yoann but I think Benjamin probably suits your purposes best. Ben is very easy to have in most countries I would think.

Thanks for that. Yes, you're probably right about Benjamin. I like it too, but I do also like the other names... We'll have to see when we meet him!

I'm probably not the best - DS1 was 3 days old before he had a names and DS2 was a week and a half.

The think with Yoann, I wonder is it's too close to Joann for use in the UK and too much like a girls name? Yolan instead maybe?

Gregory would be nice.

or Benedict?

I do love the sound of Yoann and in French it's definitely very masculine, but I take your point - I did wonder myself whether it might be mistaken for a girl's name as it's not used in the UK, so thanks for pointing that out, as it confirms my doubts about the name!
I'm afraid I'm not keen on Gregory or Benedict as names for this one, I just can't imagine calling him by either of those names in the park or local swimming pool. Thanks for suggesting them though!

Alex(ander/andre)
Max
Sam
Thomas

Actually I think Jonah would be equally good as Joe also travels well.

Jonah is great

I was trying to find a boys' name that would work in English and French and got some good suggestions on this thread.

I like all the names on your list but my favourites are Ben and Isaac.

Hugo
Thomas
Benjamin
David
Patrick
Simon
Max
Victor
Jonas
Lucas

If you're leaving towards Ben there is always Benoit as a French option - can be shortened to ben.
I'm interested because my OH is French though we live in London and we'll be looking for names that work in French and English (and we're not finding out what we are having so that is TWO shortlists we need, eek!)

Sorry that was "leaning towards" not leaving!

I love Issac.

I know your dilemma, I'm English and DH is French. The baby's name has to work in both languages!

What have we done, I wonder?! He has such strong opinions of names that are old fashioned in France (but nice here!) - am almost 20 weeks and despair that we will ever reach an agreement!!

Ha ha, DH (also French) and I also have different tastes. Our name discussions are only hypothetical so far but I foresee trouble ahead! I've actually picked a girl's name which he says is old fashioned but I'm sticking to my guns and hoping he'll come round by the time we have a girl, if we have one. Old fashioned names come back into fashion! Plus the mother does pregnancy and childbirth so we should get the final say

Jack/Jacque
David/Davide

Jonah is fab.
Also like Benoit, Phillipe, Robert

Some of the Frenchmen I know with English names (the pronunciation differs, obviously, but not the spelling)

Christian
Eric
Francis
Frank
Jeremy (but with accents on the two e's)

If you look up the 100 most popular boys' names in France, a whole host are both English and French, or English rather than French, e.g. William rather than / as well as Guillaume, for example.

The first group: Nicolas, Hugo, Paul, Victor, Theo, Simon, Nathan, Jonathan, Damien, Martin, Dorian, Samuel, Gabriel, Marc, Adam

The second: William, Tom, Robin, Steven, Tony, Gregory (with an accented e), Anthony, Christopher.

Also Welsh and Irish names feature – Alan, Dylan, Morgan, Kevin, Killian, Tristan.

I like all the names you've suggested, especially Yoann (or Yann). Or what about

Louis
Raphael
Gabriel
Nicolas
Theo

Benjamin and Isaac would be most comfortably familiar in both languages (I grew up in the UK but went to the French Lycée in Lonfon), but Jonah is a great name and growing in popularity. The one I know (3) is known as Jones.

Other Anglo-French men and boys I know are
Ben - short for Benoit
Ben - short for Benjamin
David
Thomas
Jaques
Paul
Darius
Robert
Patrick
Milo
Charles
Anton
Stephan
Matthew - this doesn't really work in France where he lives, and he spends a great deal of time explaining that it's not Matthieu.
Adam
Guy

A friend of mine is French, and her husband is English.Their little boy is Elian - which sounds lovely when she pronounces it but is still lovely said in an English accent.

Do you like teo? Tay-oh. Probably should have an accent somewhere!

Ds knows a teo. His brother is Luca, I think.

Both names are easy enough in English or French.

As an aside, do the French not have a list that you have to choose from? Have you checked all your choices are on there?

"do the French not have a list that you have to choose from?"
Eh?! No.

Yann is the name of my DP's personal trainer. Think late 30s/muscles/little education. It's not a MC name.