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Girl's name, three syllables, ending in ie/y that works in French ....

63 replies

olatt · 17/07/2009 09:40

any ideas?! Not keen on Elodie and, although I like them, Amelie and Emilie no good either ...

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foreverchanges · 17/07/2009 10:22

celestine , celeste for short ?

BonsoirAnna · 17/07/2009 10:17

Cécile is a horrible name.

thirtysomething · 17/07/2009 10:16

Another vote for Aurelie (can't do the accents on my PC)

Other ideas 3 syllables but don't all end in 'ie':

Clementine
Eloise
Isabelle
Eleonore
Genevieve
Beatrice
Laetitia

Other pretty names - 2 syllables:
Elise
Morgane
Solenne
Laure
Clemence
Camille
Lea
Marise
Mathilde
Aline
Victoir e

MoChan · 17/07/2009 10:13

Why is Cecily a horrible name in French?

BonsoirAnna · 17/07/2009 10:08

Virginie

MrsMills · 17/07/2009 10:07

Valerie

BonsoirAnna · 17/07/2009 10:05

Cécile is the French for Cecily and it is a horrible name in French!

hf128219 · 17/07/2009 10:03

Cecily

LunarSea · 17/07/2009 09:52

Dorothée
Aurélie

pasturesnew · 17/07/2009 09:51

LOVE Ottilie

Angelie
Annemarie
Leonie

NorkilyChallenged · 17/07/2009 09:48

Natalie/Nathalie
Melanie

BonsoirAnna · 17/07/2009 09:47

Stéphanie
Mélanie
Magali
Ophélie
Ottilie

NorkilyChallenged · 17/07/2009 09:43

Romilly
Stephanie
Melody/Melodie

That's it for now, will put my thinking cap on... (spent my whole pregnancies trying to think of names that DIDN'T end in -ie/y because of our surname so this is a good exercise for my tired old brain!)

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