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Hi! This is my first time posting here because I have a real conundrum. I am looking for a boy name that works well in English, French and Spanish that is not super common* for their age and is relatively easy to pronounce/spell. The perfect name will be between one to three syllables long because the child will have a three syllable last name. We'd prefer a name that doesn't have a religious meaning as we are not religious. Names associated with nature would be preferred, if possible. We live in a bilingual (English-French) part of Canada and the child will go to a French school, so it is really important that their name sounds good in French but can still be easily pronounced by Spanish and English speaking family and friends.

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We are hoping to stay away from Leo-type names (Lionel, Léonel, Léon) because Léonie or Léonore is our top girl name, and if we have a son first we would likely want to save Léonie or Léonore for future use.

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Thanks for your suggestions!

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Edited to clarify: We have family members with great trilingual names like Félix, Victor, Javier (the Spanish variant of Xavier), Daniel, and Adrian so would prefer to stay away from these great names which we would otherwise consider but are currently being used.

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For an indication of our taste, names we like for girls include:
- Léonie or Léonore - technically only a French name but is easy to pronounce or spell in any of the three languages
- Silvia - after my grandmother Silvia, we also like the meaning "forest"
- Béatrice - we like the meaning "traveller", would likely have Spanish-speaking family call her Beatriz

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Also edited to remove non-trilingual French names we had previously considered.

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*P.S. I realize that it is considered gauche to prefer names that are not "super common"; it's not that we need to find a "unique unicorn", we just don't want our kid to be one of three with the same name in their class. (For reference, my husband has a very common first name which he shares with two of his best friends.)

This message was edited 9/9/2020, 2:09 AM