Manon for our second daughter?

Love this name but despite what Tatiana says, would worry about the beauty being lost in translation. There is a lightness in the French pronunciation of the last syllable that Anglo Saxons don't have.
It is also slightly dated now- most Manons that I know are teens ( in France that is) or early 20s.
But it is a beautiful name - every time I hear it I think of Emmanuelle Béart and that could only be a good thing.

I will aways think of 'Manon des Sources' movie, starring Emmanuelle Béart. Beautiful name IMO.

The OP is French.

It's French, are you French speaking then otherwise it's an unusual choice

As I said physical difficulty with making a sound is a specific issue.

The majority of mispronunciation isn’t based on a physical difficulty, simply not making an effort to learn a name and remember it.

For example, my NDN is called Lucia - Italian therefore pronounced Loo chee a. Their neighbours on the other side insist on pronouncing it Loo see a, the Spanish way, no matter how many times it’s been corrected.

As they can stay cheers and chia seeds, there’s is not a pronunciation difficulty.

I know someone with a Manon from America, they pronounce it ManON.

The mispronunciation of foreign or unusual names is generally just laziness.

No, I have never managed to roll a Spanish R despite trying very hard !

It's lovely. If people aren't sure how to pronounce it it takes seconds to explain .

It's literally nothing to do with intelligence. It's about being able to hear (and then pronounce) sounds which are not in your native language.

You’re referring to the specific issue of a name with a sound that is hard for a nationality to produce - the French find ‘th’ difficult, the British find French and Italian ‘r’ hard. But that’s not the majority.

The mispronunciation of foreign or unusual names is generally just laziness.

I dislike the look and sound of Manon. It's so unfeminine. Even pronounced the French way!

You do seem to have rather a bee in your bonnet about this.

You’re the one going on and on about a perfectly ordinary name being unpronounceable.

See above post by a mother of a Manon.

Perfect with Anouk. Lovely names.

Pronouncing a name incorrectly repeatedly does not indicate a high level of intelligence.

It's literally nothing to do with intelligence. It's about being able to hear (and then pronounce) sounds which are not in your native language. I have a perfectly normal English name which no American I've met (and I lived there for 2 years) can pronounce. Whenever I introduced myself it was misheard as another name, and even when they were corrected, it was still mispronounced because it contains a vowel sound that just is not part of their way of speaking.

I am French and the name would be great there but in the UK, it’s read Man on and when she’s older she’ll be teased. Esmé works well. Bonne chance 👍🏻

Happy mother of a Manon here.

I find it ludicrous that people may find a name like this difficult, or think it might be a struggle as she grows older. She’s a teenager. She loves her name and has never encountered nastiness or difficulty. She gets asked if she’s French or Welsh. She answers. Nobody mentions football or cult films or mangles pronunciation, once told.

Anouk is a gorgeous name: Manon too. You have perfect taste OP.

@TatianaLarina, I came to this country on an Oxford scholarship and stuck about to do postgraduate work, so while many of my friends and colleagues are no slouches, educationally speaking, I have not actually attempted an IQ cull on my neighbours, casual acquaintances etc.

You do seem to have rather a bee in your bonnet about this.

Violaine?
Camille?
Mathilde?

@TatianaLarina
“Depends on the people you know, I don’t know anyone who struggles with unusual names.”

Of course you don’t dear

Ime it depends on the intelligence and education levels of the people involved.

Pronouncing a name incorrectly repeatedly does not indicate a high level of intelligence.

Depends on the people you know, I don’t know anyone who struggles with unusual names

@Tatiana, many people believe themselves to be pronouncing such names entirely correctly. This does not always correspond with the truth.

It's mispronounced by virtually everyone.

Depends on the people you know, I don’t know anyone who struggles with unusual names.

Yes it's lovely, unusual but not one of the stupid ones. It's a very sophisticated name for an adult too.

I'm not from the UK and live in London, with my non-phonetic-to-English-speakers' ears name. It's mispronounced by virtually everyone. It will depend on the OP whether that bothers her.

I’ve already commented on the demographic here.

In any U.K. city you live among people from all over the world with all kinds of exotic names. Manon is nothing.