Photo: All Things Colorful/FlickrThe Local · 19 Oct 2016, 16:46Published: 19 Oct 2016 16:46 GMT+02:00A new book has revealed what it predicts will be the most popular baby names in France next year, based on past trends. For the girls, it's predicted that the most popular name next year will be.... Louise. "Parents are looking for gentle-sounding names and therefore favour vowel sounds and short names of one or two syllables," Rapoport told Le Parisien newspaper. "The retro side of names is also popular, but not just any one. "We'll have to wait for those bearing the names today, the Jean-Marie or the Marie-Claude, to disappear before we see their names come back into fashion, maybe, in a couple of decades."

Source: The Local October 19, 2016 15:00 UTC