Angéline; Eloïse; Claudia; Elodie; Evangéline; Sasha...

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DH and my Shortlist.

French Canadian DH, I'm English, we're living in the UK permenantly.

Had a terrible time trying to find a name which is not too frilly with our last name (very like 'La Rouge'), please feed back but go easy because I'm struggling with this soooooooo very much and I'm 35 wks now

Middle name Grace (family name)

Angéline Grace (would use Angélie as a family nn or GiGi - would want to avoid Angie tho :/ )
Eloïse Grace
Claudia Grace (the meaning does put me off a bit)
Elodie Grace
Sasha Grace
Evangeline Grace (I like all the nn's that could come from this both sweet and 'grown up' ones)

Pretty much in order of preference although, I love Evangeline, but a (not that close) friends baby has this and she would like it to stay 'unique' but 'its up to me' :S. Would still use Angelie or GiGi as nn's

Thank you Gaslit(Eloise) that is a delightful story and quite compelling I'm 37 wks tomorrow and I'll wait until I meet her, but it is in my top 3 :)

My name for a girl is Eloise Grace! Have a surname which is French in origin although I have no real connections with France. My grandmother's name was Elsie Grace but I don't really want to call my LO totally after her (assuming my LO is a girl of course!)

No Sacha is short for Aleksandr. My husband is French with Russian parents - Sacha is definately not a French name! Our youngest boy is called Sacha

I think your friend is going to be sadly disappointed about keeping Evangeline unique , there are loads around here. I love the name but the fact that it is so common would put me off.
Love Eloise and Heloise , have met both in Uk and the pronunciation in English and French is very similar.
The problem with Angeline is that if you live England people will pronounce in the first instance in the English way .

I like Eloise, Angéline, Elodie.

Elodie Grace is my favourite - has a lovely flow to it.

Eloise - like this best from your list

Odile and Margaux are my favourite French names

Sasha is unisex -- diminutive of Aleksandr or Aleksandra.

Spelling (Sascha/Sacha/Sasha) has nothing to do with gender -- it just depends on which language you are transliterating into. The French spell it Sacha, the Germans Sascha, and the standard English would be Sasha. (All relate to the same, standard Russian spelling.)

Personally I would use the full name rather than a nickname.

Angéline Grace - love it, would be my favourite other than it will get pronounced "ANG" instead of "ong" in UK
Eloïse Grace - love it, would choose this - easy to pronounce in English and French
Claudia Grace - really like
Elodie Grace - nice
Sasha Grace - not keen
Evangeline Grace - like, but quite long sounding

Lovely list, my favourites are Elodie and Evangeline.

I do love vowelly names.

I Love Eloise and Elodie. Dd2's middle name is Eloise.

Whenever I mention Elodie to anyone they think i've made it up.

I love Eloise and Claudia from your list, also Evangeline.

Can I put forward another suggestion?

How about Francesca Grace? nn Cesca?

My great grandmothers name was Evangeline Grace it an old family name. So I vote for that though love all your suggstions.

I love Angeline, Eloise and Elodie. The only reason Elodie is in 3rd for me is for a longwinded personal association - the pronunciation can sound in english like L.O.D. which means, among many other things, Linked Open Data (a boring work-related acronym!).

Your friend has nothing to do with you naming your DD, if you like evangeline, go for it!

I personally think its a bit long. My favourite is Elodie - that was on my shortlist but I have no French connection so thought it would be too pretentious.

How do you Pronounce Seren with the accent? ( can't do it on phone) there's the Welsh name Seren which is pronounced like the start of serendipity.

Evangeline is lovely. Don't like eloise or elise.

I have a Sasha, I've only encountered issues with it on MN (though I suppose people wouldn't tell me IRL!). I love it so am not bothered.

The other one I love off your list is Eloise, it was top of our list for DC2. It really didn't suit him though .

Angeline grace is a lovely name

Angeline/Angelie is lovely.

Sasha Grace gets my vote

Eloïse Grace, like it the most

Wow, I posted on this thread two years ago when one of the names was one we were considering for our DC... who was incidentally a boy.

Wonder what the OP ended up calling her...