Comments for the name Ghislain

Ghyslain Raza is the infamous "Star Wars Kid".

Pronounced zheez-LEnH. [noted -ed]

The H makes the G hard in French, so the pronunciation is closer to gees/geez-LEHN.

Actually, it's more like Gil-ANN in France. I have two French cousins with the name.

The French pronunciation is Ghee-Leh'. Gh is a hard G, the S in silent, and the "ain" is a nasal sound. [noted -ed]

In the movie Domicile Conjugale (Bed and Board), the 4th installment in Francois Truffaut's Antoine Doinel cycle, Antoine's wife wants to name their first child Ghislain. Antoine pretends to agree, but instead registers the baby under the name he prefers: Alphonse.