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Help[Opinions] Re: Valentin (with transgender intent)
in reply to a message by Confused and concerned
I like Valentin! How would you be pronouncing it in English? VAL-en-tin? VAL-en-teen?
However, I do think a lot of English speakers will mistake it for a girls’ name, or at least an androgynous one.
Some random romantic French male names:
Raphaël / Raphael — I love this for you! Firmly masculine but definitely romantic IMO, and unlikely to cause pronunciation issues.
Adrien (definitely more androgynous though)
Aurelien / Aurélien (also androgynous-ish but way cool)
Calixte (ditto)
Benoît (keeping with the theme of pronunciation problems)
Ambrose — ok so this is not actually French but I don’t like Ambroise
Émilien — I seriously love this name and want someone to use it. Definitely prone to pronunciation and gender issues, though. Oh, and wouldn’t work with Amelie at all. But I’m leaving it on the list because it’s awesome.
Léandre
Philippe
Elouan — this one is new to me and I kind of dig it
Olivier
However, I do think a lot of English speakers will mistake it for a girls’ name, or at least an androgynous one.
Some random romantic French male names:
Raphaël / Raphael — I love this for you! Firmly masculine but definitely romantic IMO, and unlikely to cause pronunciation issues.
Adrien (definitely more androgynous though)
Aurelien / Aurélien (also androgynous-ish but way cool)
Calixte (ditto)
Benoît (keeping with the theme of pronunciation problems)
Ambrose — ok so this is not actually French but I don’t like Ambroise
Émilien — I seriously love this name and want someone to use it. Definitely prone to pronunciation and gender issues, though. Oh, and wouldn’t work with Amelie at all. But I’m leaving it on the list because it’s awesome.
Léandre
Philippe
Elouan — this one is new to me and I kind of dig it
Olivier
This message was edited 8/11/2023, 11:45 AM
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I was thinking something along the lines of val-anh-tahn, but not particularly accented. It's kinda like how with Amelie I've gotten used to saying it pretty fast and without accent and it starts to kind of lose the overdramatic nature of French (a little bit. Not that much but a little bit). The more I think about it the more okay I am with other pronunciations anyway, there's a lot of different variants from different places. Val-en-teen is also quite nice. I figure all pronunciations of it are recognizable enough that I could at least get the gist if someone were to call it in a waiting room or something. That is so kind of you to list all those names!! Aurelien feels like a lot but it DOES kick ass. Thank you for finding those I appreciate it :)
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