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Nouveau isn't a name, it's a French word. It's like naming a child Chien, or Petit Dejuner, or Bourreau just because they sounded nice? (For the record: dog, breakfast, torturer.) If your child ever lived in a French speaking country, their name would sound absurd. It would sound silly to anyone who knows French as well.

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It also is used in an expression we've adopted in English- nouveau riche. It's not a good association for a name, and is what most English speaking people will think of when they hear nouveau.

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Also, it is the wrong gender. Nouveau is a masculine word. If something feminine is new, it's nouvelle, not nouveau.