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?

Lucie, Louise, Marie, Florence, Julie, Celine, Alice

Sebastien , Raphael, Maxime, Xavier, Charles, Edouard, Guillaume

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

Those are nice. Claudine as well.

Sebastien , Raphael, Maxime, Xavier, Charles, Edouard, Guillaume

Lol at the thought of the average Brit trying to pronounce Guillaume.

I'm not sure how names have dated in France. I know French people in their 40s and 50s called Eloise, Sophie and Olivier, so they might have a middle-aged vibe in France.
Marianne - or is that impossible in France, being such a symbol?
Alice
I like both Fabien and Laurent for boys, but again, the ones I know are in their 40s/50s..

Cosmoa the OP has spelt the names correctly in French.

I agree with whoever said Céline and Cécile are in their 40s, or even more. There are SO many of those.
The French absolutely consider Arthur to be a French name, there is a famous TV personality called Arthur (who just goes by Arthur, though it's not his real name, I know several French Arthurs). I don't agree that Elodie is chavvy, though, it's far too run of the mill for that. It's hardly Killian. Claudia is not a French name, maybe the person who suggested that was thinking of Claudie, and of course Claude is a unisex name. I loathe unisex names I have to say, Dominique is the worst, there's just no way of knowing.

Babette is already a short form. It's like calling somebody Liz and then Lizzie (but why not).

Elodie isn't exactly Kilian, but it's not quite Marie-Sixtine level either.

I adore Pivoine. It's the French translation of Peony, a gorgeous flower. Pronounced "Piv-wan". Probably not as easy to pronounce in UK by looking at the spelling, though.

Odette

This is fascinating, what is Marie sixtine level?!

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

As someone who is called Adele I have never spelt my name like that.

What about Adelaide or Adeline? I have a Sophie although I associated more as a Greek name rather than French however many names are depends on how they said with a particular accent.

Anouk, Perrine, Zoé, Meredith, Margaux, Émile, Clément, Alfred, Eleanor, Eglantine

Baptiste

Marie-Sixtine is über posh.

Celeste
Fleur

omg though I LOVE Anouk! f

I have a friend called Henri, pronounced Orrie. Everyone calls him Henry though st first- including me so that could be an issue

Interesting to see which names are considered old fashioned or chavvy in France. I was au pair for a baby Killian back in 2000, his mum was quite posh!

I personally would choose a name without accents unless you don't mind people constantly missing them off. Also I echo the comments about how British people will not know how to pronounce French names except ones that are common here.

They were bang on trend though, Killian was a strong climber in 2000 and peaked in 2002.

Just on a quick google I am amazed to see that among the most popular French names at the moment are loads that seem 'English' to me. eg Liam, Nathan, Tom, Emma, Anna. Also 'Axel' is in the top 50!!!

Elodie, Amelie, Lucie, Fleur

Louis, Luan