Help me find a French girls' name

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I'm only a month or so pg but I foresee divorce looming over a possible girl's name.

We have a highly unusual surname that begins with O. It's from a v obscure area of France & the tradition is to use French names, particularly Occitan names.

So, the name must not begin with B (B.O.) or H (H.O.)... and should ideally be French. DH is one of those people who has a random association for every name under the sun, so has nixed about a million already. He also hates highly unusual names (because he has one... Occitan too... ) sigh

Here is our combined list so far.

FNs:
Anna
Annabel/le
Lucie
Rose
Stéphanie
Valérie

MNs:
Adela/Adèle
Helène
Jane
Marie

...ideas and opinions welcome. Combination suggestions (only with the MNs listed... we won't use a MN unless it's for a family member) also welcome.

Boys we're OK with I think. We are going with Vincent or Dominic, possibly Guy as a middle name.

Oh Cecilia is beautiful!

How about

Corrine ? lovely

Enjoyresponsibly - that list looks remarkably like the girls' names in my French text books from school!

From your list I would choose Rose, but might consider Rosalie instead, with Helene as a middle name.

Went through all this then we had boys...

Personally while there are some lovely French names I think it's important to find one that's easy to spell and easy to pronounce in English as well, otherwise could be a burden on your DD. And there are some lovely names that are completely bilingual e.g. Sophie, Alice, Laura. Plus some English ones - in fact my very French cousin (in France) is named Emma and works very well as it's simple.

Just a thought - with a last name starting in a vowel do you want/mind if the first name is a vowel as well?

You could always look on French websites like this one for inspiration though they do throw up some fairly obscure names as well. This one isn't bad as you can specify an ending for example "ie" to narrow it down.

Good luck, still a long time yet to choose and not worth divorcing over, you will in the end find at least one name you both like .

Emma is a very popular name for newborns where I live in France.

Anna and Lucie are beautiful names, especially with Helene.

Manon is lovely. I like Clementine and Valentine too.

CultureMix - Emma is a properly French name (it's the abbreviation of Emmanuelle).

my father is french and I was called Helena Elizabeth Rosalia

One of my favourite names is french: Fabienne

I love it!