4 generations of French Canadian names

[aglae.livejournal.com]

My dad's parents had 11 kids, 28 grand kids and (so far) 30 great-grand-kids.I find it interesting to see the evolution of the names.My dad's generation were born between 1946 and 1966. My generation between 1969 and 1992 and last generation from 1996 to present. Interesting to know that only 2 of the great-grand kid still have the same last name as my grand-parent. I thought of giving my last name to my kids, but didn't seem right at time, Would you give your last name if you were the only chance for the name to go on?


Thérèse & Willy




Réal (m) & Andrée
Lise & Philipe
Ghislain (m) & Germaine (f)
Ginette & Charlo
Ghislaine (f) & Joe
Diane & Jeanot
Christine & Sandor
Robin (m) & Esther
Darquise (f) & Gilles (m)
Joël & Diane
Louison (m) & Line




Dominique (m) & Marie-Édith
François
Karine & Sébastien
Estelle & Jean-François
Marie-Eve & Gaétan (m)
Sylvie & Nicolas
Alain
Stéphanie & Hugo
Raphaëlle (f) & Benoît (m)
Dave & Julie
Chantal
Sony
Sabrina & Mark
Patrice & Sylvie
Sébatien & Mélanie
Mélanie & Martin
Julie & Drew
Nicole & Lindsay (m)
Danielle & Dustin
Gabrielle
Jasmin (m)
Pascal (m)
Rachel
Eric
Kevin
Cindy & Julien
Mélissa
Jérémie


Antoine
Yzak
Louis-Gabriel
Laura-Maude
Eve-Laurence
Charles
Simon
Miguel
Nathaniel
Catherine
Liam
Charlie (f)
Heïdi
Eliot
Émerick
Félix-Antoine
Alexis
Hugo
Élise
Maxim
Virginie
Sam (m)
Léane (f)
Amélie (f)
Jaxxson
Beth
Juniper
Oliver
Amélie
Elise

Comments

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I've definitely considered the last name question. Not that I plan on having kids, but my nephew has his father's last name, and my cousins each have the same last names as their moms, so it actually could just be up to me to pass the name along. I'm not sure if I would or not. But I would definitely seriously consider it.

I like:

Esther
François
Sébastien
Sylvie
Nathaniel
Virginie
Juniper (in a guilty sort of way)

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I can't believe your gg parents had a Ghislain and a Ghislaine. Didn't that get confusing as hell?

[aglae.livejournal.com]

It sounds different enough in French to not cause too much trouble. By the time I was born, they lived in different cities and I called one of them dad. So no confusion at all on my part :D

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I still think it's very odd to use the male and female versions of the same name for siblings, but given the number of twins named Michael and Michelle, Jayden and Jayda, Brian and Brianna, (http://pregnancy.about.com/od/babynames/qt/toptwinnames.htm) obviously there are other people out there even today who don't have a problem with this!

[aglae.livejournal.com]

What I have always found odd is that there was a Ginette between the 2. They were also in the first tobe born. They hadnot yet run out of names.

[blueorange94.livejournal.com]

Mine had twins Gérald and Géraldine. :D

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

How do you pronounce Yzak?

[aglae.livejournal.com]

EE-zak (Isaac pronunciation in French, took me a few years to figure it out)

[halliwell66.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this list, I love seeing the change in trends despite not knowing anything much about French names besides the rise in Genevieves and Vivennes that I know.

Love, love Estelle, Raphaëlle, Eve-Laurence & Élise, Amélie, Juniper

And Sébastien has always been a classic name to me, Robin is cute too



I know a few people who gave there kids two middle names so they could also include the mother's maiden name.

I'm in the position too of surname not being passed on. Father is only boy & only had daughters. My girlfriend and I cant get married yet, but I'm optimistic it will be in next 2 years which is when we plan to TTC. Mine sounds a little strange but easy to spell, a rare English surname, I wish it was Halliwell, but that's another from the family line.

So haven't figured out if we'll hyphenate but will seriously consider when it comes time to decide. At the very least will use it as a middle name.

[aglae.livejournal.com]

If I had my mother's maiden name, I would have used the name as a middle name for my daughter. It is phonetically the same as Odette.

[rekkless.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness I'm from Ottawa and can pronounced all these correctly. haha.

I love love Maxim, Antoine, and Germaine.

My favorite ever French Canadian names are male names that are hyphenated like Marc- Andre. yeah, you can thank Marc - Andre Fleury for that.