Victorine?

[MagdalenaAlec]

I love this name and I am currently trying to convince DH to let me have my little baby frog give a French name to DC2 so I would like to have some expert advice on it.

Pronunciation is a conundrum: DH says "Vic-TOR-een" (like Victoria) and I say "VIC-to-reen" (just like Victor). I find mine prettier but it may not be the most natural one..

Like it? Loathe it? Any thoughts?

Nope - sorry!

Sorry, I don't like it. Reminds me of Victorinox, the Swiss army knife company, and soup tureen.

Reminds me of a mouthwash, sorry.

Sore throat tablet or a Mouthwash.....sorry don't like it.

Ouch. Don't tell me DH is right.
I have an excuse though, my children are half-French and DH already had his Alec. Does that count? :o

sounds like nectarine-sorry I dont like it-lots of lovely French names though :)

I think Victorine would be a lovely name for loo cleaner....sorry....

I thought of loos as well, latrine

i don't like it either, but I do like:

Clementine
Clemence
Aurelie
Lucile
Marine

The -ine ending makes me think of wolverine. Sorry :-(

Oh no. And I have three half French children with French names. It's just, well, not for me.

No,

I actually miss read the title as Victorialine and was wondering who would call their child after a tube line! [tired emoticon]

Are you French, OP? If so, surely you know how to pronounce the name?

Just no. Sorry.

Don't like.

Ouch ouch ouch. The first nice and positive comment gets a cupcake...anyone?

Victorine is the French feminine version of Victor/Victorin (an equivalent to Victoria then). My other option was Victoire but it turns out its English pronunciation is even trickier. Don't like Victoria at all.

Bluestocking Yes, I am French and Victorine is pronounced "Vic-to-ree-nuh" in French but I am just trying to find a way to translate this in English (we live in New York).

NatashaBee In NY, we are surrounded by artsy, "geek chic" (just discovered the expression) name, like Blue-something, nature/floral names etc.. The English side of the family (DH's) is very much into posh names (little cousins are Arabella, Annabel, Cornelia, Philippa, Percival, Quentin, Tarquin, St John and so on) whereas my side is more about retro names (Honorine, Sidonie, Marguerite, Sixtine, Quitterie, Berenice...) so I believe Victorine would probably fit the three groups.

The other two choices are Antonia and Octavia, but they are not French at all and DH's personal favorite is Vespasia which I vetoed.

I'm English and I don't find Victorine at all difficult to pronounce - I would pronounce it the French way but with a little less "uh" at the end. And I wouldn't have any trouble with Victoire. I'm not sure why the Anglophones you're talking to are having so much trouble. Vic-TOR-een sounds ridiculous!
I agree that the name does fit into your name categories (BTW, not sure that Blue-anything is geek-chic ) but it's still ug-uh-leee. Just because it "fits" isn't a reason to use it. BUT the important thing to remember is that (a) we are a bunch of strangers on the internet and our opinion doesn't matter at all and (b) if she doesn't like it, little Victorine can choose to be Vicky or Nina or Freckles instead.

I would pronounce it Victor-EEN. so it looks like you have three different versions of it. You may want to consider you New Yorkers will pronounce it. OH is from Northumberland and was originally to be given a different name to the one he has now. When his mum heard how the locals pronounced the name she changed her mind.

It's awful. It sounds like a mouthwash,or a cleaning product.

I'm not keen, don't think it works very well as a name in English (though I think the pronunciation would be OK, definitely easier than Victoire for an English speaker), it just seems quite ugly and doesn't look or sound like a feminine name to me.

From the ones you mentioned I like Antonia best.

I like Victorine but I love European, elegant, long girls names. Also love Clementine, Antonia, Johanna, Capucine etc. Much nicer imo than the current trendy cutesy names. But, thankfully we all have different tastes .

Don't like it but quite like victory. Sounds similar but less like a medicine