Can any Frenchy tell me if my name is French? My name is Joan, but it's pronounced Joe-ahn. I get asked alot if it's French, I genuinely do not know.
Can any Frenchy tell me if my name is French? My name is Joan, but it's pronounced Joe-ahn...
Matthew Campbell
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Benjamin Diaz
Isn't that a girl's name?
Jacob White
n-no.
Michael King
The French equivalent is Jeanne. You probably have Norman French ancestors.
Dominic Watson
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Luke Howard
It is a girls name ;(
Tyler Jones
Many French men do have girly names.
Andrew Baker
Why do the French have disgusting fetishes?
Jack Barnes
Names can be unisex like Sasha or Zhenya.
Nothing wrong with having such name, right?
Carter Edwards
Closest french name would be Yohan.
Parker Stewart
Actually we don't because Romance languages have gendered names. Jean/Jeanne, Gabriel/Gabrielle, Lucie/Lucien, Julie/Julien...
Jaxon Carter
Damn. So what is it then? Is my name just words put together and spelled out completely different than it sounds?
Ryder Ross
Jeanne and Yohan share the same Hebrew root, but Jeanne is the direct translation of Joan.
Carson Long
What's your ethnic background? It might be créolized version of the French name originally from Haïti or the French Carribean.
Chase Howard
Is Joan pronounced Jeanne in French or something else?
Bentley Garcia
Joan doesn't exist as a word in French, but I guess the English pronunciation is closer to how Yohan is pronounced in French.
Ian Jackson
What about the likes of Michele, which I always hear being pronounced Michelle (a girly name). Many French male given names have a girly pronunciation.
Ian Campbell
Not necessarily. Joan is John in Catalan.
Jack Young
So just the English version of the French name with biblical origins.
Luis Green
Michel and Michèle are only pronounced the same way because people are too lazy to pronounce the "è" and the "le". They're not very popular names nowadays anyway.
Evan Wood
Well, my ancestry is mostly Spain.
Levi King
>Joanis mainly afemalename in the English and French languages, but a male name inDutch; also Joan (/ʒuˈan/, /d͡ʒoˈan/) is a male name inCatalanandOccitan.[a]It is related to the namesJohn,Jane,Jean,Jeanne,Johan,Joanna,Juan,João,Ivana, Jovan, Jovana, Ioan, Ioana, Jan, Jann, Yanne, Jouan, Ivan, andSiobhán.
Luis Martinez
Huh, is joan pronounced Joe-ahn in Catalan?
Jose Phillips
>Romance languages
I didn't know these existed.
Anthony Edwards