French female names

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I like Madeleine and Cecile but not 100% happy with them - does anyone have any suggestions for similar?

My dd has a Chelsea in her (French school) class.

Fabienne is a lovely name

Fleur is my personal favourite :)

Why would you pick a dated French name though.....muses.
My (40 year old or so ) friends are called Fabienne, Stephanie, Valerie, Virginie, Magali, Isabelle, Delphine, Carine (millions of these).
In my dds class there is Lola, Hermence, Garance, Domitille, Camille (loads of), Margaux (ditto), Julie (!), Capucine, Anne Charlotte. And a Maelys, Lila, Clara and Luna.

Magaly is lovely. Magaly, Virginie, and Stephanie sound beautiful to me.

Maelys, Lilou, manon Hermence! .......... those don't appeal.

I know a Fleur with sisters Clementine and Prune. I also know an Alistair - who is a girl.

Nicole

Josephine or Constance?

Thanks for all the suggestions folks. I really don't mind if the names sound dated in France - these things often go in cycles. My DS name most people would say is very dated in the UK but I don't care because I like it and that is the most important thing.

Keep the suggestions coming - I have just shown this thread to DH and we particularly like
Delphine, Mirabelle and Agathe (but not sure how to pronounce Agathe).

How about Adèle?

Mirabelle is a fruit and not a particularly common name. a bit like naming your child "Damson"

Agathe is pronounced ah-gatt

Some of my Dds' friends' names include:
Adèle
Garance
Chloé
Emma
Bérénice
Violette
Rosa
Théa
Elise
Marie
Camille
Estelle
Claire
Anaïs
Louise
Aurélie
Laure
Alix
Alice
Maëlys
Mélissandre
Anabelle
Eloïse
Ludivine
Lucie
Capucine
Juliette
Jeanne
Hélène
Valentine
Clementine
Clémence
Inès
Amélie

Mirabelle is a fruit and not a particularly common name. a bit like naming your child "Damson"

Well, so is Clementine which you have listed!

Mirabelle (or Mirabel) is a known name in the UK, unusual but not unfamiliar, whereas the mirabelle plum is not very well known at all here.

Hmm, Clémentine has been a pretty popular name here in France for the past 15-20 years and I know quite a few... I've never ever met a Mirabelle and it would sound pretty eccentric to me if I did !

Mirabelle is an old Latin name rather than a French name. It's more popular in England (and more used in English speaking countries).

And I'm quite eccentric anyways, even without it being DD2's name .

Odile
Margaux
Colette

How is capucine pronounced?

These names are so pretty.

I love Laure < spiral addict!>.

like the monkey!?

Genevieve, Leah, Jocelyne, Aurelie, Chantal, Angelique, Marie, Nathalie, Celine, Martine, Stephanie, Sabine, Ombeline, Amandine, Claudine, Sophie.

Isabelle
Marie-Luce
Cecile
Pascale
Denise
Francoise
Morgane
Manon
Noemi
Artemise

Anouk

Well I think it's a bit off to scoff at the name Mirabelle because it's a fruit, while fully accepting Clementine, which is also a fruit ....

As for Capucine, I could say it would be ridiculous to call a child Nasturtium which is what it means in English. But I won't. :) There was an actress called Capucine, wasn't there. She didn't use a surname, she was just known as Capucine.

Oh I love Garance! Would love a Garance but we aren't at all Francophiles and it wouldn't suit us. But it's beautiful!

I've never heard Garance before. Do they get called Gary for short?

I didn't know Mirabel was a fruit. I prefer it to Clementine. Mirabelle sounds nicer.

Honestly that #French list has some real howlers on it! Jade, Pauline, Marion, Hermence, Garance, Denise, capucine! ............ I wouldn't worry about what works in France.

I think my dc's name is dated in France but if we ever go there, or if she ever goes there, then I think people will cope with that because they won't be expecting her to have a name that is typical of her generation in france, because she is not french. so, go with what works in the UK.