[umanwizard]

I know exactly how Luc is pronounced in French, but I wouldn’t do so (unless we were speaking French) because it sounds weird to use non-English sounds in English.

Btw, this sound also exists in German and is spelled “y”. If you meet a German and want them to say your name in your preferred way, tell them to imagine it’s spelled “Lyk”.

[lucb1e]

German has the sound indeed, it's just one swapped symbol (and probably an unusual character combination/sequence), that's why I feel like they ought to be able to easily. Usually it's written ü though (ironically, in IPA /ü/ sounds like the german u without umlaut!), but they tend to forget what the pronunciation was even if we speak somewhat regularly. It's just foreign to them, I can understand ^^. Got one south african colleague who does it perfectly every time, native english speaker so it surprised me a lot (they're the only one so far) but probably due to afrikaans as second language it just clicks for them.

Lyk is an interesting option I should try with germans. It makes the vowel sound a bit too 'short' but it's very close indeed. Let's see what results that gets compared to Lüc :)