French names

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DP is French, we'd like our children's first names to be French but easily pronounced/spelled in UK (live in UK). Have a few names in mind already, does anyone have any male/female suggestions?

Also: favourites for now are -

Girls - Élodie, Chloé, Eloïse, Gabrielle, Sophie

boys - Olivier, Raphaël

(Apologies in advance, accents not working properly on my phone so have left them out)

For boys Charles, Louis and Albert (could be known as Bertie) all seem to have worked well for French/English families I know.

For girls Charlotte, Elodie, Amelie and Clementine (usually known as Clemmie) have all been fine.

I love Delphine for a girl
Louis for boy and Raphael is lovely!

personally I rather like Elodie and if I were picking a boy’s name that I wanted to work in both I might go for Louis. Olivier is nice but I suspect you will get a lot of people repeatedly assuming it’s Oliver which I think could be a bit irritating.

Cecile, Amelie, Francine

Pierre, Jacque, Tomas, Philippe

Isabelle? Francois?

I like all your choices. Chloé, Sophie and Gabrielle maybe less than the others as they are more common in the UK and so feel more international than French - you might consider that a good thing though.

I love
Capucine, Apolline, Amandine, Colette, Anouk, Juliette, Anaïs (probably not worth the pronunciation issues though).

Clément and Mathieu are also nice for boys, Patrick and Louis for more international options.

I like Delphine too. I've always loved Guillame for a boy.

Olivier, Elodie, Eloïse and Sophie are quite common names in France, but very much an older generation, 30-40. Chloé is very, very common too, as is Gabrielle. You're probably ok with Raphaël.

I would suggest, as modern but not too run of the mill :
Ophélie, Maëlys, Ludivine, Manon, Lucille
and for boys:
Léo, Jules, Quentin, Amaury, Maxime.

Same situation chez nous, op.

We have Maxime and Pascale.

Leonie also is gorgeous.

I like Auguste or Emile for boys.

Gaetan also for a boy - might confuse the brits tho.

Also Victor and Léon.

On our list we had:

Louis, Hugo, Philippe, Gabriel, Max (could be short for Maxence or Maxime), Ludovic, Arthur (not exactly French but I know a few small French ones), Raphael

Eloise, Madeleine, Margot, Juliette, Celine, Anais, Adele, Violet, Valentine

Camille, Amelie, Anouk, Eloise, Elodie and Delphine were all on my list

Gaetan also for a boy - might confuse the brits tho.
I have a close family member with this name. The Brits butcher it, I’d avoid unless you want your DS to be known as Gay-Ton.

Anything other than Élodie for a girl, every other woman my age is called that
For boys I like Seb, Florian, Nathan and Victor.

Manon, Capucine, Mirabeau, Isabeau, Inès, Maëlys, Anaïs, Sigolène, Célestine.

Really like Olivier and Raphaël. Also Thibault.

I like Elodie, Chloe and Sophie from your list.

How about Carolina, Margaux, Clementine, Ines or Clara.

Henri, Hugo, Louis, Leo or Raphael?

Ooops, just seen you already had Raphael on your list...

Celine
Hugo

I know 101 girls called Manon. Cecile and Celine are both ladies in their 40s

Noellie is my favourite French girl name. Not sure how it would work in English when read but should be easy after being told. I also know French children called Opal, Quentin, Clemence, Leopold, Emmeline, Gaspard, Victor, Anselme. Sorry muddled genders there but hopefully you’ll work them out!

OP lives in the U.K. Manon is not common here.