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?

Love Elodie and Eloise. ( very pretty names)

I really also like Amelie.

Hugo, Thomas, Charles, William, Victor, Max, Lucas

Caroline, Catherine, Anna, Florence, Beatrice, Constance, Charlotte, Diane, Rose

Aimee for a girl and Xavier for a boy.

A very old fashioned name in France for a girl is Valerie. All easy to pronounce here

Other than a lot of the names already suggested, I love Loïc for a boy

Adele should be Adèle.

Just a thought... how will accents work regarding official documentation in the UK?

For instance, will Adèle always have to be spelt Adele?

Louis & Sophie

Fantine cosette

I'm a bit confused by the accents you have placed on the names Elodie and Chloe.... For a start the e's on each name made a different sound. Could you clarify OP?

I have a Leon. He is 8 weeks old and amazing! 😊

Always loved the boys name Etienne!

Josephine. My girl is Josephine!! Works great in French and English and we shorten it to Josie and phina (or fiend lol)

I considered calling dd Elodie cos I love it. French friends uniformly pulled a face and and said it was (for want of a better translation) a bit chavvy.
Ines and Agnès would be my alternatives.

For instance, will Adèle always have to be spelt Adele?

Why would it? There are loads of names which have accents.

I do love Clementine.

Babette, known as Betty

I love Giselle

Etienne for a boy, Eti is cute.

My all time favourite for a girl is Sylvie.

I also love Gaspard

Eloise
Sophie
Fabienne

Also really like Etienne for a boy

My son is Emile, we love the name which we picked for family reasons. But at Drs appointments etc it is routinely pronounced Emily. On the other hand we live in a very multicultural part of Canada and most of the children a5 daycare etc have “unusual” names, so perhaps less of an issue than in the UK

Wow I wasn't expecting this many replies, thanks for all the suggestions! Particularly love Loïc, Louis, Lucas, Maëlys, Camille and Anaïs :)

For instance, will Adèle always have to be spelt Adele?
You can use accents when you register the birth, but not all computer systems are designed for accept these (accents aren't printed on British passports).

Slight arf at baby Francine and baby Valérie... Elodie is indeed a bit chavvy, and thirty years behind the times.

Particularly love Loïc, Louis, Lucas, Maëlys, Camille and Anaïs

I like all of those except Lucas. I would imagine them being said in variety of British accents though and see if you still love them. Camille is likely to be said Cam-eel. People will get Anaïs wrong. I think they're so lovely it wouldn't put me off, but it's worth considering if needing to frequently correct spelling and pronunciation will annoy you. I would expect accents to get misplaced or dropped as they're a pain on British keyboards. I know a Zoë and it's almost always written Zoe.

French inspired names I love are Claudia for a girl and Lucien for a boy x