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French baby boy name suggestions?

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KidneyBowl · 21/10/2024 21:38

As the title, looking for some French baby boy name suggestions thanks!

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KirstenBlest · 23/10/2024 08:02

french ancestry but living in the UK and non French speaking. So needs to work in English more
Then I think you should choose a name you like that it's fairly obvious how to say and spell it.
Something like Andre, Etienne or Pierre fits that brief, but Matthieu, Laurent, Gaspard would be Math-ew, Lorrunt, Gas-pud/Gasp-ard etc

Names like Guillaume and Edouard would probably be old-fashioned in France and tricky in the UK.

The link I posted has many international names like Raphael, Leo, Theo, Louis, Adam, Hugo, Martin, Lucas but they're not identifiably French. (Susan is there too but I'm not sure why!)

You could look at your family tree to look if there are names you like, or look for names that are related to the part of France with which your family is linked. e.g. Browse Names - Behind the Name. Loïc and Malo seem current and are Breton.

JudyJulie · 23/10/2024 08:06

Our friend Guillaume is universally known as Will! Presumably this is the sort of thing you are looking to avoid.

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