Comments for the name Étienne

I really love this name. It is not very common and it sounds special and beautiful.

Etienne has always been one of my top choices for a boy's name, but I have also seen it used as a girl's name. I do not know how well that would work in a French-speaking place, but it seemed really edgy and hip to me in high school!

My brothers name is Etienne and he hates it. When he was in school everybody called him ET and told him to phone home.

I love this name, but I would only use it in a French speaking country. It sounds a bit too much like ATM to be used in an English speaking country.

This is a very good strong name not very common in America. Most people that hear my son named Etienne love it.

Étienne is the name of a character, played by Guillaume Canet, in the film The Beach.

Saint Etienne is a British electronic group popular during the 90s.

I'm not too sure about the pronunciation that is given here. I'm not French, but I learned French in school and I've been in France about three times.
Ay-TYEN seems to me like somebody is trying to pronounce it correctly but does not succeed. (Sorry, if this sounds too harsh, I don't mean to offend anybody)
It is hard to translate the E in Étienne into a phoneme that also exists in English, but I think "Eh-TYEN" would be closer, with the "Eh" pronounced like the first "e" in "gender" only a bit lighter.

Ailidh is wrong; the pronunciation given is accurate.
The sound Ailidh is describing (the 'Eh' sound) is spelled like this È, not like this É.

Maybe the example I gave ('gender') wasn't the best one, but ay-TYEN is definitely wrong. It isn't the correct French spelling. I have never heard any French pronounce the name like that.
And I know about the difference between é and è. I learned this language for four years. And though my own pronunciation might be very German, I have met a lot of French people. My teacher was French, too. So I know what the language is supposed to sound like. ;)

Etienne is the name of a great character in Francis Temple's books 'The Ramsey Scallop' and 'The Bedouin's Gazelle'.

Étienne Eugène Azam was a French surgeon, famous for studying one of the earliest recorded cases of (what is now known as) multiple personality disorder.

The name is okay, but I have NO CLUE how they got it out of Stephen.

Rutger Hauer played Etienne Navarre in the mid-80s movie Ladyhawke. He was under a curse that turned him into a wolf every night; his lover, Isabeau, became a hawk by day.

Ok, I know it's masculine, but it seriously looks feminine. I would have never guessed it was French for Stephen. I guess if you're in a French speaking country, it's ok, but definitely not in an English speaking country!

Étienne Aigner: designer of women's purses & leather goods.

www.etienneaigner.com

Etienne Aubert was the birthname of Pope Innocent VI (Pontificate between 1352-1362).