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Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
If we have another Son (this is totally theoretical as my wife is not even pregnant yet) I kind of like the name Etienne but my wife thinks it is silly because it is French, and also sounds girly.
I know it is not an English name, we called our Son Aidan rather than Aiden because it was the English spelling. It's not as though I would want to call him Tetsuo or Feng or anything. Etienne is, after all, a variant of Stephen!
What do you think? Is it a daft name for an English lad? Oh and do you think it is a bit of an airy fairy name like Jonty or Tarquin (no offense if that is actually your name by the way!)
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
Yes 
Your choice but it sounds a little feminine in my opinion of course.
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14-05-2009, 2:37 PM
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
I think Tetsuo, Kaneda and Urotsukidoji are fine names for anyone.
I like french names, Etienne's a winner. How about Xavier?
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14-05-2009, 2:38 PM
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
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Your choice but it sounds a little feminine in my opinion of course. |
Yeah...reading the name back now it doess seem to be a little effeminate...hmm...
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
What's wrong with Stephen? 
I think it'd be fine, though children with "different" names often get remarks about it in school etc, but then again, some names are just seemingly "boring" and "unoriginal" to some people.
I know some French people who have it as their surname, none with it as their first though.
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
We have the same dilemma if we have another. Do we chose a typically Dutch name or do we try to integrate more as we are living in the UK?
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14-05-2009, 2:40 PM
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
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We have the same dilemma if we have another. Do we chose a typically Dutch name or do we try to integrate more as we are living in the UK?
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Well as Roy Castle always said..."integration's what you need"
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
All depends really as to whether you want the kid to get picked on constantly at school or not 
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
I think it's opening up a world of hurt for a boy, for sure.
You have to 'think outside the box' and imagine how it's going to affect him in later life.
And 'Etienne' would be a curse, it's almost guaranteed.
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
Ah that reminds me of Sarah Cracknell... 
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
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We have the same dilemma if we have another. Do we chose a typically Dutch name or do we try to integrate more as we are living in the UK?
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Maybe span both countries.
Clogbert?
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
What's wrong with Decadence Jr.?
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14-05-2009, 2:52 PM
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
I regularly deal with a guy called Richard Head.
I mean, what the hell were his parents thinking??
Who doesn't know the connotations of that and the humiliation he must have suffered because of it?
Maybe we should go down the route of Iceland and New Zealand.
Where you're only allowed to choose from a list, or the name you choose has to be approved.
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
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Maybe span both countries.
Clogbert?
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Both countries 
Throw Sweden into the equation, my wife is Swedish but has lived in the Netherlands since the age of 6. I have been informed that if we have a girl in the future, she is likely to have a Scandanavian name. I have warned her though..... if we had a boy and she was considering the name Benny......
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14-05-2009, 2:55 PM
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Re: Would it be wrong to call an English Boy Etienne?
Etienne doesn't sound girly at all in French but you're not planning to live in France so...
The name only reminds me of the song by Guesh Patti - Etienne (the video is quite interesting)
I wanted to call my son Enzo as I have italian roots but was told I shouldn't as he'd be called Bonzo 
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