What name would you go for? Need for native English speakers please :)

Fleur and Nora are both lovely. If you're undecided between the two, can I suggest Flora , as an easily pronounced, spelt and well known and very pretty alternative x

There’s a Fleur in Harry Potter. That’s likely to be more influential. 🤣

Oh and Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall have a daughter Lena, don’t know if that is Lay-na or Lee-na.

@OP, what did you think of the comments that people gave you?

I’m intrigued by Maé, is it pronounced Ma-ay, or May?
Nora has that old lady chic that a lot of people like (similar to Ada, Betty, Elsie). There was a famous character in a comedy series called Nora Batty, who was a bit of a dragon, but that association will be less and less known these days. Norah Jones is a nice example of a younger person with the name.
Margaux is nice, but people will want to spell it Margo or Margot. I saw a documentary the other week about the comedian Matt Lucas and he said his German Grandmother was called Margot and in German the “t” is sounded- did you suggest the aux spelling to avoid your DH’s German relatives doing that?

Fleur East is a very well known singer/presenter at the moment, she is pretty cool and not a bad association.

They all work great! I like Lena

I think all of those names are fairly ok to pronounce.

Maé
Léna
Fleur
Nora
Margaux

They are all fine, I would probably just spell Margot Margot (which is the usual French spelling isn’t it?) or it will be a pain for her.

Fleur can sound pretty bad in UK accents, so think about that.

People won’t use the accents so don’t use those names if that will bother you.

I would think English people know how to pronounce Fleur. It's a name from The Forsyte Saga, which was a popular TV show (both in the 1960s and the new version, 2003).

Margaux. Beautiful name.

@Hurstlandshome , there probably aren't that many in your daughter's age group but it has shot up in popularity in the past 9 years or so. (from #725 to #80)

Coincidentally, an actor with the same name shot to fame in a film released in that year.

Lovely names. I really like Léna.

They are all beautiful. ☺️

Honestly haven't heard it for years - I'm in London, if that matters. My daughter is 9.

What? There are loads, and have been for ages. It’s really quite popular.

They will all be fine and English speaking people will be able to pronounce them. If you plan to stay in Uk and go with that particular name then I would spell it Margo.

But I would get rid of the accents as they will cause confusion and we don't have them on English qwerty keyboards. (one of my DC has a name which could have an accent but we chose not to)

I like Fleur the most. Tbh, you don't need to make any concessions for your child being born in the UK, but you can try what my parents did. My middle name is from my father's original country and as I've grown older, I love and appreciate it even more because it's unusual and expresses my mixed heritage.

@StillWeRise , the quite snobbish woman was Margo, not Margot

Maé- unsure how you would pronounce this and I read French- May or Mae work in English but are often used as a suffix eg Rosie-Mae
Léna- again the accent will not be understood or used
Fleur- pretty name, quite girly, no strong associations
Nora- an old lady name and not in a good way
Margaux- English people will mangle the spelling and pronounciation of this. Margot is familiar but but Margot was the name of a quite snobbish woman in a 70s sitcom, The Good Life.

Wow, really? Feels to me like they're eeeeeeeeeverywhere these days.

I LOVE Margot - haven't heard it in forever.

Names with accent are a pita on English keyboards
I have friend with accent on her name (foreign national ) so I have to ditch it if on social media email etc…it isn’t nice to mangle her name like that

I think Mae is nice and fine if you go without the accent and accept it’ll be pronounced as May which was a common uk name ( I had an auntie May). Similarly Lena if you’re happy she’ll be pronounced lean-a

some folks might stumble at Margaux - not so much pronouncing it when they see it, but remembering how to spell it if it’s not written in front of them. I can see all sorts errors in letters. Emails, social media and her birthday cards. I struggled just now having just read it then not remembering the last bit

so do bear that in mind . It isn’t just people knowing how to pronounce it when written, in truth they’ll only get that wrong if not introduced to her face to face. The issue is bigger that when people know her na,e but then try to write it they’ll not know how it’s spelt. That’ll stick around all her life.

They're all beautiful names, OP. I do agree on leaving out the accents though as most people will just take the path of least resistance and ignore them anyway. And I agree with a previous poster about filling in online firms with accents. 🌹

The accents are going to cause you and your DD problems on forms in the UK for the rest of her life, simply because they aren't used.

Other than that any of the names will be fine. You will get people misspelling them but that's normal with most names.

I think they all seem fine and haven't had an issue pronouncing any of these names.
The accents may be forgotten about though!