Pronounced as the English word joy, rather than as the French phrase joie de vivre, Joie might produce more complications than joy.

Mardi is a foreign word name that sounds like a homegrown nickname. For what? We're not sure, but it's kinda cute, and preferable to Tuesday.

A happy combination of several desirable genres: it's a word name, it has a foreign accent, and it has a highly virtuous meaning. And few other parents will be bold enough to choose it.

For remembrance of books past, Proust might be a meaningful middle name.

This could be a fresh way to honor an ancestral Walter.

If you're actually considering this as a name for your child, you must have had a glass too many. But it's an awesome name for a white cat.