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[Opinions] Yves
Do you think Yves (EE-v) is usable in the US as a male first name? If you're not French? Do you think of the designer?

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Probably not usable. I'm in a French-speaking area (for new posters), and know plenty of men/boys named Yves, but I don't think it's worth the trouble to name a boy that, in an English-speaking place. I don't think of the designer, though. I've heard English-speakers pronounce it "Why-viss".Sometimes it's a hyphenated name, usually Jean-Yves.
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No. Ives would be pronounced to rhyme with knives or wives, because most Americans are familiar with the Currier and Ives artwork, Burl Ive's music, and the little riddle about as I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives.Yves would be somewhat better because Yves St. Laurent is familiar to lots of Americans, however it would sound like Eve.I'd advise against it.
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Yes. As long as, as a parent, you are the type of person who can handle a bit of correcting/teaching people without getting your knickers in a bunch.
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Not the way you want it to be pronounced. I forsee it being pronounced Eye-vz.
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I would keep saying Ives as /EYE vs/, like the singer Burl Ives. Yves like Yves St. Laurent would /EEV/. But then, it could fall into the same category as Channel, Dior, Armani, etc.
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