Any name ideas for a english baby living in France.....?

[mozhe]

Ok it's not ' needed ' until october but the debate has already started....we know it's a boy, we want a name that will sound good in french and english...and we're fresh out of ' favourites ' as we already have 3 DSs and they each have x3 names each...We have a short,( english ), surname and our other children all have fairly traditional if slightly old fashioned names...Can't bear the baby name books as just too much choice !

Any other clues alphabet letters names you so and don't like etc.
Thomas
Henry(i in French?)
Sabastian
Luke
Joseph
Cn you find one of those calenders with the list of 'approved' namse they were all supposed to use and see if it helps?

Dominique

Nearly forgot the obvious
john/Jean
can be stuck in front of all the others!

Gabriel, Lucas, Hugo, Leo, all popular in France now.

Laurence

or laurent

We are English living in France and have two boys.

We knocked out the names that were spelt differently (Henry, Edward and so on).

Then we knocked out the ones that only sound nice in one language (Bernard springs to mind!).

The Old Testament ones - Daniel, David, Jonathan, Benjamin, Samuel - were top of our list. All are fine here, although some are unusual.

I know quite a few people in this situation who went for Alexander/Alexandre, usually shortened to Alex.
Or there's Paul, Mark
I know a Jonathan, too, but the difference in pronunciation is quite marked, and I wanted to avoid that personally.
I found a good name for DS that works in both languages, but am feeling secretive...

Stefan

my cousin lives in France and her first ds is called Arthur which sounds lovely with a French accent: Art-er.

There's been a thread about this before here

so you might find what you were looking for.

Sorry that sounded a bit terse but I was eager to see if I could make the link work.

Nico
Mattias
Andreas

Eng mates living in Fr-speaking Switzerland named their daughters Hannah and Lucie,
Fr mates living in Eng - Marianne & Matthew
Poncey Eng mates with Fr heritage - Isabella & Achilles

(not many boys in that selection though)

Christophe
René

Vincent - I think this is such a cool name.

Edward/Eduard

Luc / Luke

I like pizpizpiz's ideas.

Not Nicholas, as I don't like the way the French say it!

I adore Valentin and Ettiene, but don't know how well these would work in England.

Nephew is called Noam - as his mother French Algerian and they live in Paris - it was a sort or arabic Noah apparently whcih was one of their top choices!!

I like that - Noah and Louis too

Louis, George, Joseph, Frank, Alexander, Charles, Phillip

henri georges

Can you tell us what your DS's are called, then we can think of something that fits in.

Oooo Lynette don't want to spill the beans to that extent....but some great ideas on here ! Thanks.

Christian

the french make it sound so beautiful