French name for DC2 - help please

[ImpYCelyn]

DH and I had a huge list when it was DS, but this time round we just feel a bit about all the names. We can't even think where to start.

We'd like it to be a Saint's name, but we don't mind derivatives from a Saint's name iyswim.

So any ideas for girl or boy names please?

I don't want to post DS1's name directly as it's uncommon and I don't want to be searchable, but I can link to it here Just so you have an idea of what we went for last time :)

They'll have two middle names. The definites are Marie for a girl and Sébastien for a boy. So there's one of those each up for grabs as well.

Thanks very much :)

I love French names. Wish i had some French heritage to warrant using one!

Sylvain
Fabien
Yvain
Germain
Alexandre
Leandre
Louis
Lucien
Antoine
Didier
Claude
Laurent
Leon
Xavier
Aurelien
Beneoit
Etienne
Guillaume

Celeste
Camille
Delphine
Cosette
Magali
Ines
Agathe
Bibi
Odile
Sabine
Anais
Solange
Dominique
Elodie
Esme
Heloise

Cassandre
Mélodie
Morgane
Matilde
Odette
Marie-Eve
Brigitte
Nathalie
Geneviève
Mélanie
Arielle

Olivier
Mathieu
Damien
Jacob
Nathan
Samuel
Alexis

I love Sébastien

Louis, Claude, Damien, Mathieu, Olivier, Samuel and Guillaume are all close family :(

As are Magali, Solange, Mathilde and Brigitte

I do quite like Héloïse (it was on our list last time) and Arielle. I like Ines, but a friend has one. I love Agnes said in French, but I think English family would make it unbearable. Agathe is nice too.

I'm a Classicist so can't do Cassandre sadly, I'd always think of the House of Atreus.

I really like Aurélien, but I'm worried we'd be heading a bit too "Ave Caesar" with DS1 and DS2 have imperial names :o

Alexandre and Benoit are nice too.

There's just nothing that screams "pick me!"

It's so difficult.

Ooh, I think Sabine might make a nice middle name though...

And DH has just said "how about Edith?" on the phone. I think I might quite like it...

Your DS is the name we've chosen for our next DS if there is one.

We had:

Melisande
Stephanie
Yseult
Adele

And boys:

Aurelien
Adrien
Etienne
And our eventual choice

I liked Xavier but nabbed by close family.

Melisande and Yseult are really pretty.

We also like Xavier, but it's been nabbed here too Shame, I love Xav/Xavi for short.

Ottilie
Sandrine
Yvonne
Yvette
Therese
Lucienne

Oh and Simone!

Severine
Segloene
Sebastienne
Regine

Can a boy have a Jean-x name? Because I love Jean-Baptiste (needs to be breathlessly whispered)

We stayed in a place called St Amarin once which would make a cool name. Plus, Amarine would work for a girl.

Ok, just had a chat with DH - second middle name for DC2 if a boy will also be Marie.

So boy - X Sébastien Marie

And girl - X Marie Y

Two girl's names and one boy's name needed.

Leaning towards Aurélien for a boy, but I really think it might sound too Roman. And if we ever have a third DS we won't get away with calling him Jim, it'll have to be Augustus or Julius so he doesn't feel less important :o

DS has Jean as his first middle name.

Amarin/e is nice, I've never heard it used before.

Could have a hyphenated first name though for either, so potentially extra names needed.

We told people DS would be called Louis-Bernard - their faces were very funny :)

I love Ludovic and Loic, and although it isn't french I think Aloysius is just fab!

Aurelie (for a girl)

Josephine

Celeste

Constantine (Connie)

Those are all I can think of!!!

I like Constance (Connie) actually.

DH has a cousin called Loic.

I joked with DH that we might need more emperor names and suggested Domitian. At which point he told me that his favourite name is Titien - which I actually really like, so that's going to the top of the list.

He also suggested Oriane - which is also going to the top.

Thanks everyone, you've given us lots of ideas :)