I see this pretty often on the girl’s side, but do you have any great [name_m]French[/name_m] names for boys? [name_f]My[/name_f] mother, daughter and I all have [name_m]French[/name_m] middles, but I am just now considering it for a son.
I’m not an expert on [name_m]French[/name_m] names. The only ones I can think of are:
[name_u]Claude[/name_u]
[name_f]Camille[/name_f]
[name_u]Jean[/name_u] [name_m]Luc[/name_m]
I really like:
Baptiste
Benoit
Étienne
Félix (of course nobody would use the French pronunciation automatically for an English-speaking country)
François
Julien
Léo (same issue as Félix)
Louis
Marcel
Pascal
Olivier (people would read it as Oliver by mistake a lot, though)
Thierry
French names are lovely, they usually sound softer to me than their English equivalents (where they have an equivalent).
Here are a few more that come to mind…the ones with asterix are my fav ones:
[name_u]Noel[/name_u]*
[name_m]Beau[/name_m]
[name_u]Andre[/name_u]
[name_m]Leon[/name_m]
[name_m]Marc[/name_m]
[name_m]Alain[/name_m]
[name_m]Alexandre[/name_m]
[name_m]Anton[/name_m]/[name_u]Antoine[/name_u]
[name_u]Blaise[/name_u]*
[name_m]Emile[/name_m]
[name_m]Dion[/name_m]
[name_m]Frederic[/name_m]
[name_m]Germain[/name_m]*
[name_m]Henri[/name_m]
[name_m]Jacques[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucien[/name_m]
[name_u]Maxime[/name_u]*
[name_m]Olivier[/name_m]*
[name_u]Remy[/name_u]*
[name_m]Romain[/name_m]*
I like-
[name_u]Remy[/name_u]
[name_m]Armand[/name_m]
[name_m]Burke[/name_m]
[name_m]Breton[/name_m]
[name_m]Bertrand[/name_m]
[name_m]Drury[/name_m]
[name_m]Florin[/name_m]
[name_u]Norris[/name_u]
I really adore [name_m]Emil[/name_m].
There are a lot, many of which are very similar to English names, I think its a lovely idea. [name_u]Jean[/name_u] is probably most common and clear. [name_u]Andre[/name_u]. [name_m]Leon[/name_m] is nice
I love [name_m]Benoit[/name_m]/[name_m]Beno[/name_m]ît and [name_m]Christophe[/name_m], but I don’t really have any more [name_m]French[/name_m] boys names on my list. I may have to start a collection.
I knew a [name_m]Guillaume[/name_m] when I was an exchange student. Might not work so well stateside depending on where you live. Other good ones are
[name_m]Luc[/name_m]
[name_u]Jean[/name_u]
[name_m]Marc[/name_m]
[name_u]Antoine[/name_u]
[name_m]Henry[/name_m] (with the silent H so it’s “ehn-ree”)
[name_m]Pascal[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucien[/name_m]
[name_u]Andre[/name_u]
[name_m]Alphonse[/name_m]
[name_m]Bertrand[/name_m]
[name_m]Etienne[/name_m]
Francois
Gregoire
[name_m]Jerome[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucas[/name_m]
Matthieu
[name_m]Xavier[/name_m]
[name_m]Yves[/name_m]