Comments for the name Hippolyte (2)

Comments for HIPPOLYTE (2):

In Madame Bovary, the porter with a club foot on whom Bovary's husband operates is named Hippolyte. A similarly unfortunate character appears in Dostoevsky's The Idiot with the Russian version of the name, Ippolit.

-- Anonymous User  5/8/2008

Now it's even being used on boys? I think this name is dumb regardless of sex.

-- bananarama  8/26/2008

It's pronounced 'ippo-leet'. I have several (French) ancestors with this name, but they're all 1700s-early 1800s.

-- Pie  1/17/2009

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