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If French is widely taught at school level, then people who learnt it would certainly know the word, if not as a given name; especially of course a female one. But otherwise I imagine the actual pronunciation would be hard to guess. So-leel is pretty awful, and Soul-ill is possible and hilariously horrible. My uncle and aunt lived for many years in a little, production-line suburban house called Beau Soleil, which they never changed, so I grew up knowing the truth about it!