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It's kind of like the very traditional/Catholic version of naming your kid Beyonce. Also seems like it could be the feminine equivalent of Jean-Baptiste, which I have a soft spot for.

This message was edited 7/30/2021, 11:49 AM

It's very over the top Catholic which is pretty much my exact style. But I don't care for the sound. I prefer just Jeanne with the French pronunciation if you want the saint as a namesake.

What if I name my daughter John Dark? As a double first name? Wow weird and dorky. I don't hate it for someone else. I don't like it at all for myself.

I think I must just not "get it."
Maybe, Jeanne alone doesn't seem to honor the saint in France, so they add d'Arc so it'll be on the nose? Okay.
In English it sounds basically like John-dark (but with a ZH). Which is not very appealing.
I like Jeanne though.

Amazing

What a cool name. Imagine being a Jeanne-d'Arc! It would be easy to make it less intense too, by just going by Jeanne. I'm sure I'm butchering it with my pronunciation, but it's still pretty epic.

Would it ever get the French pronunciation? Jeanne is OK, though I prefer the English (and fem) Jean; d'Arc will swiftly turn into Dark, which might or might not work. I don't think most people, including most Catholics, would consider it, especially as a fn.

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As for the fn + ln ... today I was looking for something else, as one does, in a useful list of South African deaths - not all of them by any means, but a pretty good reference source if you're lucky. And there, born in the 1920s with an unremarkable ln, was one Cecil Rhodes LN. Cecil could be anyone and was my dad, but Cecil Rhodes just screams British Empire Enthusiast, and at a time when Rhodes himself had been dead for decades. Interesting. So it can happen!

It feels like second hand embarrassment that someone would think of giving that as a name. Beyond stupid.

My DH’s step mum is named Jeanne Darc, with that spelling. Always thought it was a bit much, not my thing.