Ideas for French names

[Ninunina]

I'm 34 weeks pregnant and DH and I seem to have two names that have consistently remained as favourites during the past 8 months: Francesca and Martina. Although we have an Italian surname, DH is French and I can't help think that there is a beautiful French girls name that we're missing. DD is called Amélie. Any ideas?

[Ninunina]

DD is Amelie... mn doesn't like accents it seems!

[Lovelybitofsquirrel]

Anais, Elodie, Laure, Lucie, Madeleine? (sorry no accents here either!)

[Rosieliveson]

Camille is a nice, french name IMO

[saintmerryweather]

Avaline? Might be too close to amelie

[vvviola]

We have a Celine (and a big sister with a name similar to your DD2). We were living in Belgium at the time so wanted a francophone name. I know it's a bit of an old fashioned name in the French speaking world, but it seems to get lots of compliments in English speaking communities, and there isn't much difficulty pronouncing it in either place.

[rodgette]

Lucille - means ray of light, quite rare too :)

[baskingseals]

Fabienne

[AmandinePoulain]

I've got an Amelie and a French dh too

I've also got an Elodie. My other favourite was Eleanor but dh didn't concur, and he liked Isabelle.

[MsJupiter]

What about Martine or Francine as these are close to your preferred names (although I know one letter can make all the difference)?

I know a French Elinor which is pretty.

[Kikithecat]

Coco (Corinne or Colette)

[MyNameIsKenAdams]

Fabienne

[tethersend]

Manon

[Felix90]

We have a Sylvie Beatrix. Both names we liked just happened to be French and neither of us are remotely French!

[florascotia]

can't do accents, sorry, but what about:

Amandine, Alienor, Camille, Carine, Clarisse, Corinne, Edmee, Estelle, Florence, Juliette, Manon, Raphaelle, Sylvie, Violette, Viviane

[maytherebe]

I love Aurelie, though I hear it's quite commonplace in France...

[ElviraPink]

Bette

Mariette


Ginevra

[ZingSweetMango]

I love Genevieve (sp?) and Josephine.
also Marco (French?) and Bastienne

[ZingSweetMango]

crap, I overlooked the bit about only girl's names are needed.

[oldbutnotpastit]

celeste
genevieve
mireille
josephhine
delphine
ismeria
aurelie

[oldbutnotpastit]

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/08/french-names.html

hope this link works lots of ideas here

[Nataleejah]

Leonie ?

[eurochick]

I love Manon. Elodie is lovely too.

[Ninunina]

There are some lovely names that have been mentioned, but every single one has either been vetoed by DH or is already used by close friends and family. I'm really fond of Charlotte and Chloe but DH doesn't like them. Martine is MIL's name. Isabelle is my aunt's name, not fond of Francine and Elodie reminds me too much of Melody (there was a girl at school with that name and she wasn't very nice). I don't think I'll find the name! DH is just too fussy!

[florascotia]

There's a thread close to this one on the Mumsnet webpage - all about Clementine. How about that (the same 'ine' ending as Martine)? Or Clemence?

There must be dozens of other 'ine' name endings - Albertine, Valentine, Zephyrine, Claudine, Micheline, Georgine, Sabine etc etc.

Francesca is a lovely. If you both like that, then your baby will have a nice name, anyway.

Or there's Franseza (Breton), Francisca/Franciska (many European languages)...

[Amandine29]

My favourite French girl's name is Delphine but it's considered a bit middle aged.

What about...
Florine
Flavie (I love this as well)
Angélique/Angéline
Audrey
Sophie
Juliette (Another favorite)
Adéline
Ségolène
Hélène
Léa
Coralie
Clémence/Clémentine