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I teach students that are equivalent age of end of high school, beginning of college and I always love getting my class list, to spot the names.

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The college is in a very urban and diverse area, with students from various background. The common language is French, considering we live in a French speaking province, but I know a lot of my students have a different mother tongue spoken in their famillies (arabic, spanish, urdu, haitian creole, etc.) It makes for a very cool and unique name list. Here is my first two groups (there are a lot more feminine names than masculine ones in almost all my groups). Don't hesitate to share your thoughts.

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Masculine:
Alexis (French masculine name, pronounced Ah-lex-ee)
Élie (French version of Eli)
Félix
Gabriel
Hassen (Tunisian and Maghrebi variant of Hassan)
Jamie
Lucien
Malik
Matias
Maxence
Nathan
Noé (French version of Noah)
Olivier
Philippe
Samuel
Thierry
Xavier

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Feminine:
Adélaïde
Alexia
Alice
Alix
Amita
Anouk
Ariane
Aya
Claudine
Coralie
Darya
Émiliane
Enya
Florence
Haadsan (of Ethiopian / Eritrean origin)
Iqra (means ''read, recite, confess’’ in Arabic)
June
Justine
Khaoula (variant spelling of Khawlah, of Arabic origin)
Lydia
Lyvia (variant spelling of Livia)
Magalie
Majdouline (from the root ''Majd'' in arabic, meaning ''glorious'')
Manel (means ''achievement, attainment'' in Arabic)
Marthe
Marwa
Maude
Nadine
Natalia
Nora
Océane
Rachel
Raphaëlle
Sabrina
Salma
Sarah
Shanny (variant spelling of Shani)
Solveig
Sophia
Soraya
Valérie
Wissal (means ''communion of love’’ in Arabic)
Zoé
Zohra (variant spelling of Zuhra, means ''brillancy, light’’ in Arabic)

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