I like the name 'Jolie' ....

[EnchantedwithEdwardCullen]

It sounds pretty and it means 'pretty'

but will people think 'Angelina' straight away?

I'm just trying to sort out another list to show DH

[southeastastra]

reminds me a bit of joleen cream bleach

[georgiemum]

Is it really a first name though?

[belgo]

it's pretty., I know someone with that name.

[Dragonbutter]

i like it.
but i'm not much of a heat reader so wouldn't think of angelina straight away.

[lulumama]

it is not really a name is it? it's a word..

you will have to put up with her being called Jolly, rather than the softer Jolie

or Joe-lee pronunciation

IMO

[seeker]

No - please no.

How about Annabel or Isabel shortened to Belle or Bella. Same meaning, but more choices.

Imagine being a fat, spotty shy teenager called Jolie.

[EnchantedwithEdwardCullen]

PMSL at that Joleen cream, I worked in a chemist and remember this old dear with hair as black as soot and a ginger 'tash because she used to use that stuff!

[giddykipper]

You could go for Joely, which is a first name

[ruty]

Joely is very pretty, not keen on Jolie.

[nailpolish]

i prefer Julie

Jolie is like a clowns name

[nailpolish]

and its maybe too much like Joey?
chidlren round here still use that as an insult

[Fimbo]

I agree with NP. I think Julie is very retro and you are not likely to come across many babies with this name. I know someone who spell it Ju-Leigh if you wanted to be really different!

How long do you have to go?

[Buda]

I know one. I think it's nice. Oh - the one I know is in her 30s!

[onthewarpath]

Jolie means "pretty" in french. I know that the name DJAMILA (arabic name) means "pretty" or "beautiful" and I would not be surprised if most languages actually use their translation of Pretty as a girls name. I think it is a charming name indeed, I have never heard it yet but it could become very fashionable to be called Jolie.

[MrsBadger]

I once worked with a girl called Pretty

nothing like being direct about these things...

[BalloonSlayer]

Apart from Angelina, the only context I have ever heard the word Jolie is in the French expression "jolie-laide."

laide means ugly and the term is meant to mean someone who is not conventionally beautiful but who is nonetheless attractive.

However, most of the time it is used as a polite euphamism for ugly.

Until your post today I didn't know Jolie meant pretty and I always wondered why Angelina had chosen a word which I thought implied ugliness for her surname.

[nailpolish]

Julie was on our baby names list actually
i really like it

[BalloonSlayer]

I always wanted to be called Julie.

[MrsBadger]

NB for similar sounds consider

Zoe (can't get the diaresis on this keyboard )

Chloe

[ruty]

i think it's her mother's name.

[Fimbo]

I wanted to be NP's first name.

[TheMadHouse]

There is a Joley in DS1's class at preschool. The name really suits her as she is blond with ringlets

[BalloonSlayer]

On the upside, OP, by the time your DD is grown up no one will probably even have heard of Angelina.

[ruty]

i love Chloe. Unfortunately my parents had a mad boss eyed bearded collie called that so it was out for my dd.

[nailpolish]

waht do you mean fimbs?

(your name was on our list too btw!)