Histoires de prénoms podcast

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My heart’s wishes have been answered… after years of hoping for a baby names podcast I’d love (I’ve thought so many times about starting my own), I finally found one! You have no idea how many times I’ve searched my various podcasting apps for “naming,” “baby names,” etc. and I KNOW I’ve done it before in my other languages as well, but Audible’s lovely algorithm finally just sent me Histoires de prénoms podcast… [BTW I know that The Baby Names podcast exists… it’s just never been what I have wished for in a naming podcast… I’m all about the personal storytelling…]

Sorry for those of you who don’t speak/aren’t studying French, but it seems amazing! I’ve only listened to a couple episodes since discovering it two days ago, but I started with the interview of a mother who chose Shéérazade for her second child’s name (!!! if that’s not enough to pique your interest, where is your heart?) and it seems like the interviewer generally asks about the entire family’s names, the parent(s)’ relationship to their own names, the moment at which they started dreaming up baby names (in childhood or later), when during pregnancy the name came to them and how that deliberation and compromise between partners went down, and finally of course the name’s importance/meaning to the parent(s), etc. The episodes are about 20ish minutes. The podcast just started at the start of last year, but here are the names explored so far:

Adèle
Générique
Élisabeth
Suzanne
Achille
Pablo
Joey
Pernille
Pharrell
Sibylle
Anissa
Liox
Marlo
Clément
Isaac
Cézanne
Maïya
Iris
Josephine
Joshua
Tokyo
Elie
Paloma
Gaby-Lou
Jeanne
Scottie
Romie
Gaspard
Thadée
Azel
Naren
Inès
Jenna
Charlie
Indie
Constance
Jasmine
Liam
Kamyl
Roma
Rio
Blanche
Hippolyte
Gabriella-Prielle
Vladimir
Henry
Louise
Neva
Alma
Elon
Sofia
Apolline
Honoré
Rose
Théa
Bao
Shéérazade
Melchior
Chloé
Colette
Léon
Bianca
Désirée
Ysée
Gemma
Meije

Needless to say I’ll be bingeing this podcast and catching up by the time I give birth…

:heart_eyes:

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As an avid [name_u]French[/name_u] speaker, I’ll be listening to this tonight, tomorrow, and probably everyday until it’s done! Thanks for showing it!

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Thank you for sharing! [name_f]My[/name_f] french is a bit rusty but what a great way to brush up!

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I don’t speak a word of [name_u]French[/name_u], but what a beautiful list of names! I especially love [name_f]Adèle[/name_f], Èlisabeth, [name_m]Achille[/name_m], [name_u]Joey[/name_u], [name_m]Isaac[/name_m], [name_f]Iris[/name_f], [name_u]Elie[/name_u], [name_f]Inès[/name_f], [name_f]Alma[/name_f], [name_f]Sofia[/name_f], [name_f]Apolline[/name_f], [name_m]Honoré[/name_m] (so happy to see this used! :heart_eyes:), [name_f]Théa[/name_f], [name_m]Melchior[/name_m] (!!), and [name_m]Léon[/name_m]!

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How interesting! I will bookmark the link and listen to improve my [name_u]French[/name_u].

It’s so cool that old names like Shéérazade are still being used. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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From a [name_u]French[/name_u] speaker and fellow lover of names - thank you so much!!

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But just fyi for anybody considering it off that list, Générique is the trailer, not a real baby name!! Literally translates to generic. :joy::joy:

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Haha when I saw that I was like… is that for real? But I didn’t start the podcast from the beginning yet to find out.