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[Opinions] Re: French Names

by yasmine

2/26/2013, 9:34 AM

Toussaint is one of my favourite names ever, it's so cool that you like it too! I also love Étienne. I kind of prefer Benoite to Benoit though, not sure why. Benoit is handsome though.
A lot of French names I like are really familiar like Marie, Suzanne, Hélène, Marguerite, Henri, Julien, Alexandre, Valentin. But I'll try and pick out some less common ones:

Garance
Euphrasie
Frédégonde, Frédérune
Anastasie
Josiane
Rosemonde
Célie
Iseult
Sandrine
Apolline
Albane

Fiacre
Camille
Aimé
Armand
Thibault
Thierry
Faustin
Elisée
Odilon
César
Valentin
Valère
Stéphane
Alexis
Aurélien
Ghislain
Marcel

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- Siân (Sharley)

2/27/2013, 8:54 PM

I'm loving a lot of these, but how do you pronounce Elisée, Stéphane, and Fiacre?

- Bear

2/26/2013, 11:30 AM

Fredegonde, Frederune

You should get an award for Fredegonde and Fredurune. I have heard of the former although neglected to add it to my long list. No longer. The latter will be joining it shortly.

Faaaabluous list, darling.

- Tassiegirl

2/26/2013, 11:25 AM

I'm in a French-speaking area (in Canada), and some of those names, I see every day;most however are more "French-from -France", as is said here-some names never travelled.

Josiane is about the only one I'm familiar with in the female names, though I have a relative in France called Sandrine.

Male names-
Armand
Thibault is a very common surname, here.
Stephane
Ghislain
Marcel.

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