Noticing a trend for French-inspired names...

[bealos]

Heard of a new baby Delphine and a Mirabelle recently.

Is this a new trend?

Camille seems to be more popular too.

And there's Amelie of course!

Poirot

Oh yes Amelie is practically in the top spot, isn't it?

Camille is quite nice.

Not yet seen the uptake in Poirot, but will keep my eye on that one

I could see Mirabelle becoming popular as an alternative to Isabelle, Annabelle etc.

Sophie and Sylvie are right up there too. Sophie has been around for ages. And Isabelle and Charlotte.

Poirot was Belgian

I had a shortlist which included some old fashioned French names such as Mireille and Coralie. I also liked Adeline. We went with something completely different and non-French as my husband wasn't so keen - but I think they're very pretty names.

My (French) name (I am not French though) has popped up in two threads recently for probably the first time ever. In my lurking days I saw the male version mentioned a handful of times, but never the female version, but in the last couple of weeks - there it was. I am beginning to wonder if someone knows me...?

Who called their baby Poirot!?

Claudette, Heloise type names seem to be floated here a fair bit recently.

(Hopes moxon is called claudette )

I know a little Coralie.

Apparently one of the most popular boys' names in France at the moment is Léo, which is DS2's name (minus the accent).

Ottilie and Elodie are also getting more popular, I think. So e of the French names I forget are actually French, they are so widespread - Charlotte, Sophie, Madeleine

My DDs both have french names. DD1 is 16. I think there are some french names which have always been popular, but I agree that the pool of names seems to be widening a bit.

arsenic alas no.

This isn't my name either, but I don't see Lisette offered enough as an option, and it is a great girls' name - easy to pronounce, quite classy but simple, and has a plain cross-cultural spelling.

love the name Coralie. Mirabelle made it to our short list some years ago [trend-setter emoticon].

I love the name Corentin for a boy.

It works both ways. The French have been using the name Kevin quite a lot in recent years.

I love both French and Scandinavian names.

Of the French ones, I love Sylvie, Manon, Coralie, Heloise, Elodie and Camille.

Lisette makes me think of
Sanitary protection for some reason.

I love claudette- makes me think of st. Clare's.

Any baby Tintins around?

Manon is a great name. Why did it never take off after the film?

Magali
Cyprille

Love both of these and they are the names of my goddaughters (both French). In the case of Cyprille, the parents faced opposition by the authorities.

shakes lillets, methinks.

www.sheknows.com/baby-names/french-baby-names

I bet there's a TinTin somewhere. You seen the discussion about someone naming their kid Huckleberry today? Along the same lines...

(though - again - TinTin in Belgian, like Poirot)

Looking through this list - I recognise from recent births / small children:
Aubin
Aurelie
Celeste
Clothilde
Corin
Lucille
Margot
Maximillian
Yanick

Adults I know include Beatrice, Bernadette, Emilie, Ghislaine.

I totally don't have a baby to name right now (like, why I am talking names?!) but :) if I ever had to write a baby name list again, then I think it would include Clovis, Constance, Ines, Odile...