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Ideas for French names

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Ninunina · 27/02/2014 05:05

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?

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hollyisalovelyname · 02/03/2014 08:58

Mariel
Marielle

hollyisalovelyname · 02/03/2014 08:56

Aurelie
Annick
Clemency

scarletforya · 02/03/2014 08:44

Genevieve and Vivienne are both beautiful.

CaptainCorellisVentolin · 02/03/2014 08:40

Emilie
Oceane
Loé
Tessy
Magali
Severine
Aimee
Eline
Sandrine
Quirine
Fleur
Lucille

IsabellaRockerfeller · 02/03/2014 07:48

Love Delphine/ Delphi!

Also
Celeste
Clara
Juliette
Zoe

FirstTimeMom12 · 02/03/2014 07:34

Delphine, always loved this name

ImpOfDarkness · 02/03/2014 07:28

Annias is not a French name. Nor are Etoile, Ginevra or Ismeria.

Monmouth · 01/03/2014 21:56

Annias.

mrsgumpy · 01/03/2014 20:47

My favourite French name is Sabine.

I also like Simone.

ImpOfDarkness · 01/03/2014 09:43

These threads always end up with lists of names that no French mum has used for the past forty years... FWIW little girls at DS's nursery are Hanna, Aliya, Nour, Justine, Clémence, Ludivine, Maëlle, Raphaëlle. One of them has a sister called Beyoncé Grin

SusanBlinker · 01/03/2014 07:14

My name is Fabienne. People really struggle to pronounce it here in England. The amount of times I have been called Fabian is just ridiculous.

I like Françoise.

dontevenblink · 28/02/2014 09:01

I really like the name Arianne, worked with a French girl with this name a few years ago and always thought it was really pretty sounding.

skatpot · 27/02/2014 20:20

Margeaux

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SimplySara · 27/02/2014 20:01

I really like the name Anouk. But there is also the -ette names like Annette, Colette or Bernadette.

PipkinsPal · 27/02/2014 18:56

Claudine
Corrine
Esmerelda Grin

kobaybasher · 27/02/2014 18:52

I used to love Etoile (star) but maybe as a middle name - not sure now that people would pronounce it correctly.

Amandine29 · 27/02/2014 18:47

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

florascotia · 27/02/2014 18:34

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)...

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Ninunina · 27/02/2014 15:48

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!

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eurochick · 27/02/2014 11:31

I love Manon. Elodie is lovely too.

Nataleejah · 27/02/2014 11:30

Leonie ?

oldbutnotpastit · 27/02/2014 11:06

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

hope this link works lots of ideas here

oldbutnotpastit · 27/02/2014 11:04

celeste
genevieve
mireille
josephhine
delphine
ismeria
aurelie

ZingSweetMango · 27/02/2014 08:51

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