Léo, Arthur, Maël, Noah or even Jade, Louise, Emma and Ambre: as every year, INSEE revealed, on June 21, the top 10 of the most popular first names.
Contrary to these lists, there are those who choose to stand out, baptizing their offspring with unusual, foreign, sometimes even invented first names.
On the terrace of the Montorgueil café, in the eponymous street in Paris, parents discuss the most atypical discoveries in their children's respective nurseries: Prince-Winner, Sunny Kid, Géranium, Cyprine... "How can we hate it so much? her child?” exclaims Antoine, 39.
Would the declaration of civil status have turned into a shallot race?
In 1945, France listed about 2,000 first names given each year.
There are more than 13,000 today.
So, of course, “having an original first name no longer has anything original in itself.
On the other hand, there are originalities which pass socially better than others”, describes Anne-Laure Sellier…
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