French kids club

[frnames]

From a Reddit post, not my own.

"While on holidays, I passed by an exposition of portrait from a holiday kids club and couldn't help to write their cute names. It was a club from 4 to 7 and 8 to 12 years old."

Théo (m)
Mellyna (f)
Marine (f)
Nolan (m)
Thibaud (m)
Ela (f)
Solal (m )
Galatée (f)
Luna (f)
Marius (m)
Agathe (f)
Florent (m)
Mohamed (f)
Colombe (f) (also word for “dove”, an old name)
Tanguy (m)
Inès (f)
Octave (m)
Amaryllis (f)
Anatole (m)
Hanaé (f)
Esteban (m)
Adélie (f)
Artémise (f)
Gauthier (m)
Loup-Maël (m)
André (m)
Manon (f)
Emile (m)
Zéphyr (m)
Rachel (f)
Noam (m)
Sullivan (m)
Titouan (m)
Gustave (m)
Sirine (f)
Océane (f)
Lazare (m)
Hermine (f)
Célyan (m)
Malo (m)
Melusine (f)
Ornella (f)
Ivanhoé (m)
Lola (f)
Olivia (f)
Marwa (f)
Louison (m)
Ibrahim (m)
Emmy (f)
Alexis (m)
Duc-wang (m)
Owen (m)
Garance (f)
Baptiste (m)
Gabin (m)
Leo (m)
Barthélemy (m)
Baltazar (m)
Diane (f)
Marjorie (f)
Lismée (f)
Maxime (m)
Virgile (m)
Zoé (f)
Gabriel (m)
Aurore (f)
Lorenzo (m)
Kaëlye (f)
Bénédicte (f)
Naoufel (m)
Omar (m)
Loïc (m)
Nina (f)
Dimitri (m)

Bumping. No interest? I thought there would be for rare but current French names!

I think Florent (m) and Manon (f) are great names. Lots of lovely names on the list but those stick out for me.
Thanks for posting.

French names have changed a bit since my day!
My peers were
Virginie
Sandrine
Noëlle
Anne-Laure
Nathalie
Françoise
Guillaume
Jean-Pierre
Jean-Paul
Etienne
Patrick
Cyrile

And so on in that ilk.

Fun fact

In France you have to choose your DC name from an official list to register them

You can't choose any old name like here in the UK

The person who posted that on reddit has a lot of spare time, to have stood next to a kids holiday club, typing out all of those names!

Were they quite well to do kids?. Some of them seem quite high class names, although I'm out of touch with what's current for kids.
How is Kaëlye pronounced?

This is no longer true and hasn't been for over 20 years.

Devices turn the photographed writing into typed words on a Word Doc etc

You don't need to type it yourself

@Roseau18

Oh well it was a fun fact that this was the case 20 years ago then

Actually, I know how to pronounce Gaël, so I guess that answers my question

Mohammed (f)

I don't think so.

This is no longer true and hasn't been for over 20 years

It is the case in Czech Republic though.

Exactly 30 years, in fact. The law was changed in 1993.

Many lovely names!

I am a bit surprised that Mohamed would be a female name (?).

The OP on Reddit said that this was an error.

I'm sorry but the majority of those are hideous.

Loup-Maël
Garance
Duc-wang

🤢

Duc Wang will be ?Vietnamese or similar I imagine. Garance isn't to my taste but it's not that unusual. Neither is Maël. MN is dreadful for sneering at foreign names!

Kylie

Thanks. I did wonder if it was supposed to be said like that, although Gaël isn't pronounced like the word "guile" is it? So I wasn't sure.

Gah-L
There are some weird spellings of non French names. I have taught: Braiyan (Brian), Jayzon (Jason) and Shemsdine (''Like James Dean Madame!'', although Shamesdine is an actual Arabic name).

Hopefully it's only a small proportion of mumsnetters.

I love Garance! Probably because I associate it with Garance Doré who is beautiful, elegant and intelligent.

Some of these are so lovely and they certainly make a change from Sophia, Lily et al.

It’s not ‘sneering’ to acknowledge that not all names translate well into other languages. Obviously Duc Wang is an example. I live abroad and a lot of British names don’t sound at all nice in the language. I’d not be at all offended if someone were to smirk a bit upon hearing a British name that sounds weird or like something funny in their local language. It’s okay to not pretend to love literally everything from other countries.

Thank You! I thought so, but you never know.

Sure but a vomit emoji, really? Also I strongly suspect the poster has no idea how they are pronounced. Loup-Maël for instance is a beautiful soft sounding name, it sounds nothing like 'Loop-Male'.