Loïc or Loick is a male personal

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, 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 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 Provençal 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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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, French Formula One aerodynamicist * Loïc Bruni, French downhill mountain bike racer * Loïc Costerg, French bobsledder * Loïc Courteau, French tennis player * Loïc De Kergret, French volleyball player * Loïc Druon, 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 dri ...

, 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, 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 ...

, French blogger * Loïc Leferme, French diver * Loïc Loval, French football player * Loïc Lumbilla Kandja, 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, Swiss alpine skier * Loïc Négo, 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, Swiss racing cyclist * Loïc Perrin, 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 Researc ...

, 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 achievemen ...

, French yachtsman * Loick Landre

Loïk

* Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, manager

References

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