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(28 Posts)Hi,
We are looking for girls and boys names that work in France and England as we live in France but are both English. Ideally not too much pronouncation difference - apart from a handful of obvious ones we are stuck! Any ideas please? Thank you!
French names are well received over here, but our idea of French names are a bit old fashioned in French eyes.
Have a look at the current top 100 French names and take it from there. You might have to be a little more conservative with a boys name, but as far as a girls name - go for it!
Sophie
Lucie
Delphine
Sabine
Fleur
Minette
Leonie
Amandine
Margot
Elodie
Aude
Florence
Madelaine
Odette
Juliette
Josephine
Clemence
Caroline
Audrey
Claire
Beatrice
Elsa
Charlotte
These are a pool of names from my franglais family and friends!
Florence
Danielle
Leonore
Madeleine
Colette
Gabrielle
I'll have to have a think about boys names
I have a Lily and a Max for the same reasons!
Oh didn't realise you need boys names too!
Olivier
Maxim
Jean
Pierre
Albert
Hugo
Etienne
Christophe
Alain
Jacques
Sebastian
Baptiste
Thibault
Celine
Celeste
Marion
Phillippe
Christophe (Kit?)
Paul
Sorry, ive forgot t'en how to make this clicky!
www.naissance.fr/prenoms.php?PF=1&key=&annee=2015
Following as im English, living in France and am looking for a cross over name!
So far we like
Inès
Clémentine
Roman (prefer without the i)
Xavier
Leontine
Pascale
Violette
I have a 3.5yo Elodie in the UK which was very well received.
On my list for DC2 was Camille, Celine, Delphine, Sabine, Meredith, Josephine.
We had a boy. And one name on said list
For boys I like Sebastian as someone posted up thread, Leo and also Louis but that wouldn't have worked for us as that's my name with an E on the end
Christophe
Noah
Hugo
All sound a bit posh in the UK
Arianne
Eleanore
Xavier, nn Xavi
Rafael, nn Rafa
ooo following this, we're in the same situation....DD1 was easy enough (Elise) but now I'm expecting n°2, and am stuck for inspiration, especially for boys !!
Other girls names I had on my list the last time
Charlotte (maybe not now though....)
Olivia
Zoe
Chloé
I'm picky about the pronunciation thing too, for example I wouldn't go for Louis that could be Loo-is in english and Loo-y in French
I had a friend called Clemence at school that went by Clem. I always liked that. Also Cami, short for Camille is nice.
Emma
Alice
Colette
Elodie
Michelle
Jeanine
Joanne
Louise
Anne-Marie
Marianne
Marie
Aurelie
Léo
Louis
Sebastien
Luc / Luke
Paul
Stella
Anna
Sara
Alice
Rose
Thomas
Jaques
Patrick
Robert
Vivienne
Sylvie
Eloise
I would choose Fleur or Amelie (bit cliche I know but still beautiful) for a girl & Olivier for a boy, they are lovely names that would work in both England & France
Olympia
Catherine
Louise
Marc
Luc
Adam
Jonathan
Adrian/Adrien
Victor
Melissa
Vanessa
Clara
Sarah
Sabrina
I love French girls' names
Favourites are;
Manon
Elodie
Celeste
Sylvie
Marianne
boys:
Patrick
Raphael
Marcus/Marc
oh theres some lovely names on therr - i like Elodie
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