Help French boys name!

[wildswimmer20]

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!

We have a Leon 🙂

My French great grandfather and his brother were called Marius and Erneste. I love them both.

Benoît

I like Thibaud too but also:
Emmanuel (nn Manu)
Bruno
Jérome
Gael

What about Jack/Jacque? Fits both languages
I also love Marius

@gingergiraffe
Matthieu ?
Mathias ?

@Roseau18
I know 2 male Camilles under 10 and quite a few adult ones - maybe it's just Parisian bobos though...

Another vote for Loïc - gorgeous name.

Also like-

Vincent
Emil
Maxime
Clemént
Victor

Do think about how the name is spelt though. A lifetime of spelling out your name is a fucking pain.

We chose names which are spelt the same in French and English although this will remove the "French feel" to the name.

Jacques is spelt with an S for example....

I like Artus and Leon.

Also
Gabriel
Emil
Louis
Fabien
And another vote for Etienne!

We liked
Florian
Frederic
Leo
Georges

Went for Fred in the end.

xavier
olivier

Charles
Louis
Frederic
Pierre
Francois (Franc)
Frederic (Fred)

oops, 2 Frederics
Alain
Antoine
Maximilian

Gerard
Albert
Charles
Louis
Luc
Philippe
Michel
Pierre
Jacques

Emile

I had a wonderful French colleague called Pascal, great name!

20 years in France and never heard of an Artus.

Malo is pretty current. Pascal is in his 50s. As is Xavier (I have 2 amongst my friends)

Killian is very up to date.

Lucas and Arthur (pronounced r-tor) are good sold names.

I know of arthus bertrand (the jewelers) and Yann Arthus-Bertrand the photographer, but have never heard Artus - that said apparently 60 were born in 2006!

https://www.magicmaman.com/prenom/artus,2006200,11277.asp

Stephan
Thomas
Alex
Paul
Antoine
Marco
Guy

All Anglo French boys I've known

My family is also bilingual English/French.
How about:
Clément (Clem is easy for most English people)
Leo (slightly different pronunciations of Leo / Léo if that bothers you)
Louis (I'm not really a fan of this name but it seems quite popular)
Lucas (again slightly different pronunciations)
Max (I like Maxime but it seems feminine to an English eye so might be easier for English speakers if you spelled it Maxim)
Noah
Paul
Sam / Samuel
Simon

Personally i avoided names with "th" (Ethan, Nathan, Theo) because I don't like the different pronunciations, and as a native English speaker (but fluent in French) I find the French pronunciation too harsh.

Oh and please be aware of the generational associations of names - many of the suggestions made on this thread are names that DH and I would associate with our parents' generation ie not yet back in fashion

Artie is cute. I met a french guy called Téïlo recently, thought that was nice and quite unique. Depends if you think accents are a pain and/or worry about (non-French) people possibly not being able to pronounce it at first!

Aurelien
Dominique
Emilien
Florent
Armand
Augustin
Alexandre
Guillaume
Julien
Alain
Tristan

A couple of people have suggested Alain... it's about as cool in France as Alan is in the UK - not very! I wonder how many under 5s are called Alan / Alain in either country!

Maximilian
André
Pascal

Serge