Long list of names I don't love enough...

[ChesterBelloc]

I'm sorry for the mammoth list!

These are names that I like, but I don't love any of them quite enough, IYSWIM.

Miranda
Kezia
Lydia
Marguerite
Jessica
Imogen
Genevieve
Juliette
Severine
Jeanne-Marie
Melisande
Rosalind
Florence
Magdalene
Vivienne
Mathilde
Valerie
Vanessa
Veronique
Martha
Abigail
Chantal

If anyone can suggest similar names (not too 'pretty' I.e. not too many initial/ending vowels, fairly strong/classic, with a vague French connection), I would be very grateful... or pick those that you particularly like from my long-list.

Can't use Anna, Sophie, Elisabeth, Marianne, Beatrice, Evelyn, Charlotte, Eleanor... and have already asked MN for specifically French suggestions but most were too 'pretty'!

Maribel
Margaux

Isabelle
Brigitte

Jeanne
Emmanuelle

Berenice
Simone

Vanessa
Marlene

Romy
Sandrine

Virginie
Sabine

Elodie
Beatrice

Marianne
Violette
Seraphina

Roxanne
Laetitia

Sorry, just noticed you can't use Marianne

Marcheline
Angelique

Marina
Clemence

Amelie
Evaline
Juno (not French specifically but Latin origin & I love it!)
Astrid
Simone
Zoe

(lots of vowels - so perhaps not what you’re looking for!?)

Josephine

Celeste
Katya
Lucie
Eloise
Selena
Audrey
Elise
Sylvie
Agnes
Edith

Stella
Manon
Luna
Rosalyn

Romily is my suggestion.

Of all already suggested on here I like your suggestion of Genevieve.

Jeanne is terrific. I quite like Simone and Elise too.

Léonie?
Laure? (I knew a Marie-Laure once)

Félice?

I absolutely adore Melisande, and love Miranda too (which is what I would name a very hypothetical dd if I had one today)

Or how about Cléo?

Or there's Nicole, which is rather retro (and you will get people of my a certain age saying 'Papa?' to you - just ignore) but rather sweet.

Clara

Collette?

Fleur

Miriam