Help French boys name!

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Pregnant with no. 2, hubbie is French but we live in the UK. 1st child has an unusual Celtic name and this time would like to choose a French name but struggling! Needs to be fairly easy to say/spell in both languages. Wouldn’t probably go for a very traditional French name.

Top choice at the moment is Artus, like the nicknames Art and Artie. Would be pronounced quite differently in French and English, does it sound ok in English?

Other options -
Léon
Sylvain
Mathis / Matisse
Malo

Open to suggestion!

David
Simon
Olivier
Marc
Tobias

Gabriel
Louis
Andre
Remember
Lucas
Hugo

God I hate the fact we don't have an edit button....

• Remy not Remember (bloody auto correct)

I think that the accent in Léon will be a problem in the UK. Does the pronunciation Lee-on make your teeth itch as a person who speaks French ? I'm guessing it's pronounced Leh-on ? (Happy to be corrected )

Lol, love Rémy sad it’s been strongly vetoed apparently it’s very uncool in France! 🙄

Etienne is my favourite french boys name. Also like Didier.

I’ve pointed this out to DH but he seems ok that everyone here would say Lee-on not Leh-on!

Yes! Love Etienne

I love Etienne too! Also vetoed it would be much easier if was only me choosing the name 😂

Fabian
Xavier
Luc
Patrice
Pierre

Rémy and Didier are both old-fashioned.
Étienne not quite so much.
Artus is very unusual. I have taught thousands of French pupils and never come across one.

Xavier is a lovely name, means enlightened.

Only Remys I have known are female.

Samuel is nice and works well in both languages, as does Julian. Pp has already suggested Sebastian which I like too, and Tristan is popular among French/English families

Théo
Sylvestre
Virgile
Loïc
Blaise
Guillaume
Renaud
Didier
Basile
Gaëtan
Camille
Jules
Arthur
Maël
Elias
Romain
Hippolyte
Abel
Quentin
Oscar

Lucien, Jules, Bastien

Loic
Maxence
Amaury
Lucien
Pirran
Brieuc

Interestingly I was talking to my French SIL who said that the number of French named footballers in the UK has massively increased the general acceptance/pronunciation accuracy of many French names here! She gave the name Didier as the example, she said when she was a kid people would have said it "diddy-er" but she was impressed everyone now says it correctly thanks to Didier Drogba.

Augustin
Aloys
Antonin
Aurèle
Alphonse ?

Louis
Jules
Baptiste
Jerome
Loann
Joseph
Alexandre
Dominique
Sebastien
Benjamin
Thomas
Melchior
Aurèle
Jean
Nicolas

Léopold
Théo

Sylvain is stunning!

Remy is very much à male name in France.
Camille (which someone else suggested) can be either but is now rarely used for boys.

Thibaud
Antoine
Yann
Stephane
Olivier
Luc

I love Matteaus but not sure how you spell it in French.

Its been mentioned a few times already but: Loïc. Pronounced Low ick I think.