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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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ZingSweetMango · 27/02/2014 08:50

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

ElviraPink · 27/02/2014 08:45

Bette

Mariette

Ginevra

maytherebe · 27/02/2014 08:32

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

florascotia · 27/02/2014 08:32

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

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

Felix90 · 27/02/2014 08:31

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

tethersend · 27/02/2014 08:27

Manon

MyNameIsKenAdams · 27/02/2014 08:27

Fabienne

Kikithecat · 27/02/2014 08:26

Coco (Corinne or Colette)

MsJupiter · 27/02/2014 08:12

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.

AmandinePoulain · 27/02/2014 06:55

I've got an Amelie and a French dh too Grin

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

baskingseals · 27/02/2014 06:52

Fabienne

rodgette · 27/02/2014 06:51

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

vvviola · 27/02/2014 06:47

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.

saintmerryweather · 27/02/2014 06:47

Avaline? Might be too close to amelie

Rosieliveson · 27/02/2014 06:40

Camille is a nice, french name IMO Grin

Lovelybitofsquirrel · 27/02/2014 06:31

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

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Ninunina · 27/02/2014 05:06

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

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