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I teach students that are equivalent age of end of high school, beginning of college and I always love getting my class list, to spot the names.
I have explained a bit who is the main population in the area I teach, but to summarize it: diverse area, students from various backgrounds and an important population of second-generation immigrants. The common language is French but a lot of students have a different first language learned at home (arabic, spanish, urdu, russian, romanian, haitian creole, etc.)

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Masculine:
Adrien
Auguste
Carlo
Carmelo
Charles
Dean
Dylan
Emmanuel
Harrish (unable to find the origin or meaning)
Houssem (variant spelling of Hussam)
Idrissa (Western African form of Idris)
Ivan
Jean-Axel
Jean-Claude (rare for a 19 YO young man)
Jonathan
Kai
Léo
Lukas
Marvin
Mokrani (variant of Amokrane, meaning ''eldest’’ in Berber languages)
Moussa (Western African spelling of Musa or Moses)
Nicolas
Omer
Qi (from the chinese meaning ''air, breath, vital energy’’)
Rudy
Sebastian
Selim (variant spelling of Salim)
Usman (Urdu variant spelling of Uthman)

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Feminine
Adèle
Alyssia
Anne-Sophie (as an hyphenated first name)
Aurélie
Célina
Christa
Claire
Cristina
Élisabeth
Émilie
Émy
Emma
Farqad (of Arabic origin, but couldn’t find the meaning)
Flavie
Gaëlle (feminine form of Gaël)
Jihane (feminine form of Jahan, meaning ‘’world’’ in Persian)
Julianne
Laurine
Léanne
Jennifer
Lammis (unable to find the origin or meaning)
Maria
Mathilde
Mizza (unable to find the origin or meaning)
Noémie
Romane (French feminine form of Romanus)
Valencia

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