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I love Inès, Manon & Raphaël. Sacha is my favourite shortening of Alexander

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I like Hugo, but as pronounced in English, with the H aspirated.

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Louis is very popular in the UK and a bit boring to me.

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I don't like Maël

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Chloé

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In France this has been common for a long time so it bores me a little bit. The sound is nice, elegant and crisp, but I am a bit tired of it in general. It does have a nice meaning, it makes me think of spring. It is a very fresh, green name, if that makes and sense, and at the same time elegant and strong. But it is also incredibly overused and destined to sound dated in a few years. In France this was at its most common in the year 2000, when it was at #4. It was actually placed higher in 2014, at #3, but not used as much as in 2000 which I guess is because the variety in names increased and less children were given top 20 names or maybe because many babies were born in 2000. Chloé has been in the French top 5 since 1997 so it definitely feels tired and like it needs a break. In 1994 it made the top 20, in 1995 it was in the top 15 and in the top 10 in 1996, top 5 since 1997. It made the top 50 as early as 1988, so it has been common for quite a while.

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Léa

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I strongly dislike this, to be honest. The meaning is just horrible to me. I trust the Oxford Dictionary which lists this name as meaning weary/languid. Apparently this meaning comes from the Biblical Leah who was said to have weary eyes which was supposed to mean that she wasn't beautiful (in the Bible Rachel (or Rachele in Italian, Rahel in German, Rachel in French) is the beautiful sister and Leah, Lea the ugly one :( I also don't like the Bible story, because Jacob wanted to marry Rachel but he was tricked into spending the wedding night with Leah, therefore marrying her. I am not even religious but I remember this story and the whole meaning/background of this name just bothers me.

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