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

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-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 **Ga ...

given name, based on ''Laou'', a Breton diminutive of Gwilherm or Gwilhom (like Bill is a diminutive of William), with the diminutive ending ''ig'' (like Billy). Non-Breton speaking Bretons 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 explanation of the origin of the name is that its source is "Loukas", a

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name meaning "''One from

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''". This would group the name with other names that have this root, such as

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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 in Aix-en-Provence, France) 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 de ...

, French Formula One aerodynamicist *

Loïc Bruni Loïc Bruni (born 13 May 1994) is a professional 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 the Union ...

, French downhill mountain bike racer *

Loïc Costerg Loic Costerg (born in Moûtiers) is a French bobsledder.FIBT Profile
Costerg co ...

, 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, and has been the coach of Amélie Mauresmo, the winner of two Grand Slams, since 2002. He reached a career-high ...

, French tennis player *

Loïc De Kergret Loïc De Kergret (born 20 August 1970 in Paris) is a French volleyball player, who won the bronze medal with the Men's National Team at the 2002 World Championships in Argentina. With Tours VB he won the silver medal at the Men's CEV C ...

, French volleyball player *

Loïc Druon Loïc Druon (born 23 August 1971) is a French football manager and former player who played as a defender. Honours Châteauroux * Division 2: 1996–97 Lorient * Coupe de France The Coupe de France, formerly known as the Coupe Cha ...

, French footballer *

Loïc Duval Loïc Duval (; born 12 June 1982) is a French professional racing driver racing for Audi Sport as a factory driver in DTM and driving for Dragon Racing in Formula E. He won the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans with Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen driv ...

, French race car driver *

Loïc Guillon Loïc Guillon (born 11 January 1982) is a French football defender, currently playing for French team Luçon. Career Guillon began his career with FC Nantes and joined Vannes OC Vannes Olympique Club (; commonly referred to as simply Vannes) ...

, French football defender *

Loïc Jacquet Loïc Jacquet (born 31 March 1985 in Saint-Doulchard, Cher) is a French rugby union player who plays as a lock. He has so far spent his whole professional career in Clermont-Ferrand. Jacquet was the captain of the French team that won the 2006 U ...

, French rugby union player *

Loïc Jean-Albert Loïc Jean-Albert (b. 8 February 1978 in Toulon, but grew up on Réunion), known as the Flying Dude from a popular YouTube video, Loic is an expert parachutist and wingsuit pilot. He was among the first ever practitioners of the sport of wingsuit ...

, French parachutist *

Loïc Jouannigot Loïc Jouannigot (born 1953 in Brittany, FranceListe des auteurs BD 2005

, 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 Claude ...

, 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 int ...

, French football player *

Loïc Lumbilla Kandja Loïc or Loick is a male personal forename chiefly used in Brittany, in western France, and in the Breton community in French-speaking countries. Origins ''Loïc'' is a Breton given name, based on ''Laou'', a Breton diminutive of Gwilherm or G ...

, French football player *

Loïc Matile Loïc Henri Marcel Matile (26 June 1938 – 10 June 2000, in Paris) was a French entomologist who specialised in Diptera (Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Keroplatidae, Lygistorrhinidae, Mycetophilidae). Matile worked at the Muséum national d'hist ...

, 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 Méla ...

, Swiss alpine skier *

Loïc Négo Loïc Négo (born 15 January 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Fehérvár. Born in France, he plays for the Hungary national team. Club career On 18 June 2008, he signed his first professional contract agreeing ...

, Hungarian football player *

Loïc Nottet Loïc Nottet (; born 10 April 1996) is a 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 Contest 2015, where he placed fo ...

, Belgian singer *

Loïc Perizzolo Loïc Perizzolo (born 20 October 1988, in Veyrier) is a Swiss racing cyclist who competes on the track Track or Tracks may refer to: Routes or imprints * Ancient trackway, any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity * Animal track, ...

, Swiss racing cyclist *

Loïc Perrin Loïc Bruno Perrin (; born 7 August 1985) is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He spent all of his professional career with his hometown club Saint-Étienne. Club career Perrin made his debut for Saint-Etienne ...

, French football player *

Loïc Rémy Loïc Alex Teliére Hubert Rémy (born 2 January 1987) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Brest. Rémy began his career playing for a local youth club in his home city of Lyon, before joining the bigge ...

, French football player *

Loïc Wacquant Loïc J. D. Wacquant (; born 1960) is a sociologist and social anthropologist, specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography. Wacquant is a Professor of Sociology and Research A ...

, French sociologist

Loick

Loick Essien Loick Mark Essien is an English singer signed to record label Sony Music. Essien began his musical career after featuring on rapper Chipmunk's single "Beast". Essien was set to release his debut album, ''Identity'', on 5 March 2012 but was dro ...

, 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 Landre

Loïk

Loïk Le Floch-Prigent Loik Le Floch-Prigent (born 21 September 1943 in Brest) is a French engineer and manager. He was CEO of Elf Aquitaine between July 1989 and 1993, then president of SNCF from December 1995 to July 1996, when he was indicted in connection with the ...

, manager

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