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"L'Officiel des prénoms 2012" is a baby name book published in France every year, it shows naming trends and popularity, these are the top 20 names for 2012. What do you think? Surprised? Disappointed?
* = names I like. ** = names I dislike

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Filles/Girls
1) Emma, 2) Jade**, 3) Zoé, 4) Chloé, 5) Léa, 6) Manon*, 7) Inès**, 8) Maëlys, 9) Louise*, 10) Lilou**, 11) Camille, 12) Lola, 13) Sarah, 14) Eva, 15) Clara, 16) Lina, 17) Léna, 18) Louna, 19) Romane 20) Anaïs.

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Boys/garçons
1) Nathan**, 2) Lucas, 3) Jules, 4) Enzo*, 5) Gabriel, 6) Louis*, 7) Arthur, 8) Raphaël, 9) Mathis, 10) Ethan, 11) Noah, 12) Hugo*, 13) Léo, 14) Timéo**, 15) Tom, 16) Adam, 17) Théo, 18) Mathéo, 19) Yanis** 20) Maël.

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If your looking for names that are more "BCBG" and less typical here are the top names from Le Figaro's "Carnet des prenoms" of 2011. The every day French child is not being named Isaure or Théophile but the list is very beautiful (imo) and interesting! Included is the link to the pdf book. http://www.lefigaro.fr/assets/pdf/ca...enoms-2011.pdf

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Girls
1 Louise* 11 Isaure
2 Joséphine* 12 Victoire
3 .Victoria 13 Hortense**
4 .Alice* 14 Valentine*
5 Héloïse* 15 Agathe**
6 Inès** 16 Alix
7 Jeanne 17 Camille**
8 Margaux* 18 Capucine
9 Chloé 19 Clémence
10 Eléonore* 20 Lucie

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Boys
1 Paul 11 Louis*
2 Arthur 12 Maxime*
3 Gaspard* 13 Victor*
4 Alexandre 14 Adrien
5 Gabriel 15 Antoine**
6 Jules* 16 Clément*
7 Maxence* 17 Côme
8 Charles* 18 Théophile
9 Grégoire** 19 Alban
10 Jean 20 César**

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I left spellings intact and did not add/remove letters, accents, etc.

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I post on multiple boards so Im sorry if this is repetitive info for those of you who also follow other sites, but I thought it would be fun to share!