Sebastien or Louis

[Claire2308]

Our baby boy will be half french and we are really torn between Sebastien or Louis.

We already have a little girl called Amelie but we just can’t decide on her brothers name. Which do you prefer?

Sebastian is my favourite. Classic and suits all ages. Love sebby for a toddler and Seb for a teenager!

Louis! I love the sound of it, cute on a toddler, cool for a teen and it’s a proper name for an adult. I love how it looks written down too.
Sebastien is nice too but I really can’t stand ‘Seb’ as a nickname

Sebastien is lovely, but will he have problems with people spelling it Sebastian here?

Louis is nice, but Amelie and Louis together is a lot of ls.

I’d go for Louis.

I prefer Sebastian but the change in spelling will be a pain for him. Louis is nice.

Love them both.
You will get Sebastian constantly misspelt with an a though.
And either Loo-eee or Loo-iss.

Both lovely.

Sébastien will get the anglicised spelling Sebastian constantly. People won’t even notice that they’ve done it. Louis at least has consistent spelling. Thankfully the loo-is pronunciation is dying a death post Prince Louis.

Louis sounds better I think.

@ShaunaTheSheep

Love them both. You will get Sebastian constantly misspelt with an a though. And either Loo-eee or Loo-iss.

Yes thinking about it, if we were to go to with Sebastien we probably would spell Sebastian so he wouldn’t hate us growing up 🙈

Two of my favourite names so I'm not very helpful I'm sorry

Prefer Sebastian, it's a lovely name (but spelt this way if he's going to be living in the UK, because it would be a pain otherwise). Having said that, there's nothing wrong with Louis and I think most people will pronounce it the French way.

Funnily enough though I just met a young sibset of toddler Louis and year 1/2 Amelie the other day - so it must be a popular/instinctual combo!

Louis. I’m not keen on Sebastian, but the French spelling and pronunciation is nice. Seb is horrible, enough to put me off the name.

Love both
Sorry I'm no help at all

Bastien? Gorgeous name and good odds of people spelling it correctly.

Both are lovely but there's 3 Sebastian's in dd5's reception so it's quite popular but love both choices
Save one for the next baby 👶🏻

Louis!

I do like Sebastien, but I don't like any potential shortenings. Louis is short enough already and is probably a bit easier to pronounce in a British accent.

Louis would be my choice.

Sebastien/Sebastian is too long for me, and the male equivalent of a 'frilly' girls' name.

Sebastian is one of my favourite boys names

Where I work Louis was the go to name for the naughty boys and now can't let that connotation go. Fwiw I'm sure there are some lovely Louis out there too

I have a Lewis (who everyone assumes is Louis and that I, his mother, am mispronouncing it) and I also have a Sebastian. I know Lewis is not the same as Louis but it is similar, and I love both of the boys names and both are well received. People comment a lot that they love the name Sebastian and that it was on their list but they 'weren't brave enough to use it' whatever that means haha. At first I did find it a mouthful but you get used to things quickly. We do call him Sebbie for short or if he is needing a cuddle but otherwise he is known as Sebastian to everyone including family.

I prefer Sebastian and as a pp has said good nickname choices - Sebby, Seb. I know a Sebastio who's known as Basti, which is nice too. Congratulations!

Sebastian is lovely.

Sebastian is gorgeous.