Loïc or Loick is a male personal

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chiefly used in

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, in western France, and in the Breton community in French-speaking countries.

Origins

''Loïc'' is a

Breton Breton most often refers to: *anything associated with Brittany, and generally **Breton people **Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany ** Breton (horse), a breed **Gale ...

given name, based on ''Laou'', a Breton diminutive of ''Gwilherm'' or ''Gwilhom'' (as ''Bill'' or ''Liam'' is to ''

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''), with the

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ending ''ig'' (like ''Billy''). Bretons who do not speak Breton often think it is the Breton form of the name ''

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''. In Provence, in southeastern France, many think that it actually is "the old

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form of Louis", in which case it means "famed warrior". Another less well accepted derivation is from ''Loukas'', a

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name meaning "from

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" (whose usual French form is ''Luc'' (see

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Notable people with the name

Loïc

Loïc Amisse Loïc Amisse (born 9 August 1954) is a French football manager and former professional player Player may refer to: Role or adjective * Player (game), a participant in a game or sport ** Gamer, a player in video and tabletop games ** Athlete ...

, French football manager *

Loïc Bigois Loïc Bigois (born 19 September 1960) is a French Formula One aerodynamicist. He is currently the Head of Aerodynamic Operations at Scuderia Ferrari. Career After studying engineering at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Bigois ...

, French Formula One aerodynamicist *

Loïc Bruni Loïc Bruni (born 13 May 1994) is a professional French downhill mountain biker. He is a student at Skema Business School. Career Going into the 2015 season Bruni was one of the favorites. For that season he came 2nd in the world rankings on th ...

, French downhill mountain bike racer *

Loïc Cloutier Loïc Cloutier (born April 26, 2004) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays for Atlético Ottawa in the Canadian Premier League. Early life Cloutier began playing youth soccer with FC Trois Lacs, before joining the CF Montréal A ...

, Canadian soccer player *

Loïc Costerg Loic Costerg (born 9 May 1987 in Moûtiers) is a French bobsledder.FIBT Profile
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, French bobsledder *

Loïc Courteau Loïc Courteau (born 6 January 1964) is a French former tennis player. Courteau has coached the French Fed Cup team in years past, as well as Amélie Mauresmo, the winner of two Grand Slams. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No ...

, French tennis player * Loïc De Kergret, French volleyball player * Loïc Druon, French footballer *

Loïc Duval Loïc Jean-Claude Duval (; born 12 June 1982) is a French professional racing driver racing for Peugeot Sport in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Duval is a former FIA WEC champion and a winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, win ...

, French race car driver * Loïc Fauteux-Goulet, Canadian contestant in Series 7 of '' The Great Canadian Baking Show'' * Loïc Guillon, French football defender * Loïc Jacquet, French rugby union player * Loïc Jean-Albert, French parachutist * Loïc Jouannigot, French children's book illustrator *

Loïc Le Meur Loïc Le Meur (born 14 July 1972) is a French entrepreneur and blogger. He served as Executive Vice President EMEA at software company Six Apart after merging French blogging company Ublog with Six Apart in July 2004. In late 2006 Le Meur became a ...

, French blogger *

Loïc Leferme Loïc Leferme (28 August 1970 – 11 April 2007) was a French diver who was the world free diving record holder until 2 October 2005, when he was surpassed by Herbert Nitsch. Loic was also a founder of AIDA in 1990 with Roland Specker and Clau ...

, French diver * *

Loïc Loval Loïc Loval Landré (born 28 September 1981) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his career in the Netherlands for De Graafschap, Go Ahead Eagles and FC Utrecht. Born in mainland France, he was an inte ...

, French football player * Loïc Lumbilla Kandja, French football player * Loïc Matile, French entomologist *

Loïc Meillard Loïc Meillard (; born 29 October 1996) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom. Born in Neuchâtel, Meillard made his World Cup debut in January 2015; his younger sister Mélan ...

, Swiss alpine skier * Loïc Négo, Hungarian football player *

Loïc Nottet Loïc Jean-Pierre Nottet (; born 10 April 1996) is a Belgian people, Belgian singer, songwriter and dancer. He began his career as a singer in the third season of ''The Voice Belgique'' in 2014 and represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Cont ...

, Belgian singer *

Loïc Perizzolo Loïc Perizzolo (born 20 October 1988, in Veyrier) is a Swiss racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, moun ...

, Swiss racing cyclist * Loïc Perrin, French football player * Loïc Rémy, French football player *

Loïc Vergnaud Loïc Vergnaud (born 1 December 1978) is a French Para-cyclist who represented France at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics. Career Vergnaud represented France at 2021 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships where he won silver in the roa ...

, French para-cyclist * Loïc Wacquant, French sociologist

Loick/Loïck

* Loick Ayina, Congolese footballer * Loick Essien, English singer *

Loïck Peyron Loïck Peyron (born 1 December 1959 in Nantes) is a French yachtsman, younger brother of the yachtsman Bruno Peyron. He is particularly famous for winning many races in the 1990s on board his trimaran ''Fujicolor''. Among his notable achieveme ...

, French yachtsman *

Loick Pires Loick Barros Paiva Pires (born 20 November 1989) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who last played for VCD Athletic. He played as a winger and centre forward. Career Born in Sevran, Paris, to a Congolese mother and a Portuguese fa ...

, Portuguese footballer * Loick Landre, French footballer * Loïck Lespinasse, French footballer *

Loïck Luypaert Loïck Fanny Luypaert (born 19 August 1991) is a Belgian field hockey player who plays as a defender for Braxgata. He played 315 matches for the Belgian national team from 2012 to 2024. He combines his sports career with an educational program ...

, Belgian field hockey player

Loïk

* Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, manager

References

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