Eden or Etienne for a boy??

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Too pretentious, too girly??

Eben could be short for Esteban. Sorry if that's already been said. That could work. Eden very girly imo.

Etienne is nice but I would feel silly using it. Are you French, half French, flying over France on your way to Germany, something like that!!

eden imo is a girls name !!

My second(?) cousin is Eden. He's about 9 I think. Lovely name.
Love Emil but our surname sounds French and we are not, so dh vetoed any too-French names

Etienne looks like a girl's name to me because of the nne at the end.

But my ds will likely be a boy Sky in a class of girl Skyes so who am I to judge? (and no, I don't care if that makes him gay

Etienne is beautiful. I dont really like Eden.

I know a male Eden & who cares if Etienne sounds pretentious, if you like it.

Etienne is one of our favs, for DS2, although his dad is half french and has double barrelled french surname... I think it's a lovely name.

Eden to me sounds like a girls name....

I'm quite surprised by all these female Edens. I've only ever met male ones. In my mind it is in the same boat as all the other '...den' names: Hayden, Jayden etc.

I know an English Etienne. Doesn't raise eyebrows for me.

But personally if I was looking for an E name I would probably choose Elliot.

Emerson
Elijah
Emmanuel (but again to french if not french)
Euan
Elwood

Eden is a girly name, and Etienne is poncetastic, unless you happen to be french or of french descent.

Elliot is lovely too.... I like Elliot for a girl too... like on Scrubs.

In was going to call my ds Etienne - I really love it. We settled on Fabian in the end (and no I'm not French).

Elias?

Fabian is of Latin origin though - it's Fabien that's French.

I know 2 male Eden's. 1 is in his 30's and 1 is 3yrs old. I think of it as a boy's name. If you like it then use it although I do prefer Eben!

"It works. Strong name."

Eden is many things, possibly even nice. But it is not strong.

I like Etienne and i dont understand why it is pretentious... but maybe thats because im french?
Enzo is nice too
Not too keen on Eden though

"naff to be original", let's all be sheep then

I know quite a few male Edens, I think of it as more male than female but I hear it pronounced with a soft E rather than a hard E (as in garden of....).

LOVE the name Eden for boy or girl

and really like Etienne

Knew an Etienne from when he was born (name SO SO didnt suit him!) until he was 3 (had completly 100% grown into the name! SO suited him!)

totally unhelpful i know!

pregnant women should not be allowed to choose names.

in fact there should be a law against naming a child until 2 weeks after the birth.

etienne? dude, seriously!

I know a male Eden. I quite like it but it is a bit airy fairy.

Etienne is toooo french (unless you are actually french)

No to both.

Why on earth does it have to begin with E? V strange!

Ellis is good / Elias is lovely / Emil is ok / Ernest is okay but Ernie is hideous / Elijah is okay but I don't like Eli / Elliot is getting popular but it does nothing for me.

I like the name Eden for either gender.

I know of a small, English female Etienne and a large, French male Etienne. It is a bit French for a bloke really.

It's a lovely name though.

Ethan is better for a boy than Eden. Eden makes me think of a pre-Raphaellite woman floating around with long wavy red hair and a white dress. Not good image for a boy.

Etienne makes me think of that crap 90s band with the wimpy woman singer.

Today seems to be a good day for poncey names in MN land.

Eden too girly

Ettiene only really works if you are French imo.

How about;

Eric
Edgar
Edward
Eduord
Edmund
Earl
Ellery
Emlyn
Ernie
Errol
Eugene
Ezra

No t that I like all of the above names, just some I found on a website of boys names!

Oh of course - Edward/Edmund are far and away the best E names: how on earth did I forget them? I liked St Etienne though!