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Girls names with French origin

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AmIGoingMad · 13/02/2013 16:38

Hello!
I'm a bit of a Francophile and would love to get some inspiration here for some names of French origin. Only thing is that the area can be a bit 'judgy' so I'm looking for something not too 'in your face' French. Strange brief I know! For example, I love Amelie but that would be looked at strangely here.
Any ideas please?
Thanks!

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PommePoire · 13/02/2013 20:25

Marianne is a personal favourite; I like that she could be Marianne of Liberte Egalite Fraternite and the emblem of post revolutionary France, but also a Jane Austen character (Sense and Sensibility) thus ticking both French and British cultural boxes!

Coralie
Gisele
Sylvie

skatpot · 13/02/2013 20:28

Margaux

SeventiesBush · 13/02/2013 20:31

Margot, Berenice, Odile, Babette

yoyo123 · 13/02/2013 20:32

Amelie?
Fleur?

chirpey · 13/02/2013 20:47

Michelle

Nordicmom · 13/02/2013 21:03

I have a friend with an Amelie and neither she or her husband are French . I don't think it's unusual but pretty :)!

BikeRunSki · 13/02/2013 21:07

I have an Amy, and people are always surprised that she's not Aimee. I don't think that Aimee is considered to be an "imaginative" spelling at all.

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AmIGoingMad · 13/02/2013 22:02

Thanks all so much! I've been reading through thinking 'oh I forgot that. I love it.'

These really are such pretty names!

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montmartre · 13/02/2013 22:07

Ondine
Celeste
Elodie
Aurore
Pauline (if you're a fan of the 'old lady' type names Grin)

DontEvenThinkAboutIt · 13/02/2013 22:13

Capucine,
Mireille,
Elicia
Lise (pronounced Lease)

BikeRunSki · 13/02/2013 22:22

Elodie

jkklpu · 13/02/2013 22:23

Odile
Margaux
Marianne
Segolene
Solenne

ErikNorseman · 14/02/2013 07:02

Oceane, noemie, claudette. Anything but bloody Amelie.

flubba · 14/02/2013 07:15

:( Erik

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AmIGoingMad · 14/02/2013 07:58

Oo Noemie is very nice too!Smile

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ErikNorseman · 14/02/2013 08:15

makes me think of her and she's just the most beautiful woman ever

LottieJenkins · 14/02/2013 08:26

Clotilde
Matilde

Kikithecat · 14/02/2013 08:28

Corinne

tigrou · 14/02/2013 08:39

Sybelle / Cybèle
Inès
Cécile
Lætitia
Juliette
Marion
Gaëlle
Solène
Sandrine
Apolline
Garance
Victoire
Bertille

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AmIGoingMad · 14/02/2013 18:32

Elodie and Ines ate both lovely too!

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AmIGoingMad · 14/02/2013 18:32

*are

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cuillereasoupe · 14/02/2013 19:38

Elodie is deeply unfashionable for babies now though. I'd expect an Elodie to be about thirty.

Yay4may · 14/02/2013 19:41

Sirine
Ambre
Simone
LOVE Anais and Delphine as suggested

But the best for not being in your face/work in UK are Lisette and Ariane

Yay4may · 14/02/2013 19:42

Sirine
Ambre
Simone
LOVE Anais and Delphine as suggested

But the best for not being in your face/work in UK are Lisette and Ariane

MortifiedAdams · 14/02/2013 19:45

Fabienne