Elodie

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4 weeks to go and no ideas for a girls. We have no french heritage and this is very french - is it a bit naff to use such a french name in that case?

What do you think of it?

Love it. Not naff at all.

This will get mis-pronounced all the time.

No not naff.

Lovely name, not at all naff, go for it! x

Not naff at all.

I know five Elodies - one 'grown up' (she is one of my closest friends) and four little ones - and none have French heritage.

Go for it.

we have 2 in our prim school - neither french

I love "Elodie", trying to persuade DH to add it to our shortlist but he's not having it.

Not naff!

Stop naming your children with names beginning with EL!

It will be dated back to 2009/10/11 forever! Jeez, there are soooo many right now.

Sorry, got on one a bit there ;-)

It's lovely. And don't let the French origin deter you if you love the name. Think of all the other (French) names around - Madeleine, Amelie, Esme etc...

It sounds weirdly truncated to me, like it was supposed to be Melody but lost the M somewhere. Or like a mixture of the terribly popular El sound with Melody.

And I think it means 'marsh' or 'swamp'.

Lovely name! It was on my shortlist til i found out im having a boy. I have a French name with no French heritage an I get so many lovely comments on it. Go for it, good luck!

I like it - it was on my name list but we had to scrap it as it doesn't go well with our surname. If you want something a bit similar but not as french there's always Elosie.

I love it. I know one, she's 19 and no French heritage at all. Definitely not naff.

I think it is beautiful. It matters not a jot that you don't have a French connection. (I have also chosen a French name for DD due on 1st Feb ) Go for it!

Its lovely and I know one, age 3 who is a very beautiful and full of mischief child. (not that it makes any difference)

LOVE it.

I know one, she is called Ellie for short, I think it's lovely.

I love it. It was my top girls name when I was PG. I had a boy.

Then, when my best friend was PG she rang me ans asked if I would mind if she could use the name as it was the only one she and her DH could agree on. I said yes. They had a boy.

It's getting fairly popular now (relatively speaking - it's still quite unusual). I put that down to my one-woman campaign to encourage people to use it, via mumsnet

For an unusual name, it's easy to spell too.

It's very pretty.

I like it.