French girls names

[sarah30000]

We want to honour a family member who is french but we don't like their names! We thought maybe we can choose a nice French girls name instead. It needs to be one syllable, or at most a very short two. I've looked at various lists but nothing is jumping out at me. Any suggestions? Preferably not ending in A. Thank you!

Yes, I realise it's also a popular name in Wales, which probably muddies the water still further.

My goddaughter is Claudie, in honour of French relatives. I love her name!

Claudie is very cute!

That's my point, they pronounce it 'Man-on', as in 'There's a man on fire, get the fire extinguisher'.

There is no ‘they’. As I said I’ve never encountered an English person who couldn’t cope with Manon.

It’s only on here that people say they would sound the n.

I am French , and I enjoyed reading the answers lmao most the names given are 80yo women names or very 70/80's.

OP, will your child actually have much interaction with French people? If not it won't really matter if it's dated to French ears.

My real name has been mentioned, but it wasn't picked due to any family connections, my parents just liked it. Am now wondering if I have the equivalent of Ethel or something!

Etoile

@YourOpinionIsNoted no, they won't have any actual french connections. It's more conceptual really to honour the French relative. Plus it's only a middle name.

I don't want to pick something ridiculously archaic but it doesn't need to be super modern french. I know that most children internationally have similar names now anyway so that's not really what I'm trying to achieve.

Marie-Antoinette?

You could add a Proustian touch and use Madeleine, or one of those sweet French names that are a boy's name with an e on the end like Alberte or Gilberte.

Yet someone on the thread just after my post has said she would pronounce it ‘Man-onn’, @TatianaLarina. Or is she lying?

Not sure what’s unclear about this:

It’s only on here that people say they would sound the n.

I always think it is strange when people choose a name for their child from a language they don't speak. I would understand it if one parent was French or if you lived in France. But it seems a bit pretentious to use a French name when you have no connection, and it's not honouring a family member if you don't use any of her names!

What month was she born in?
What are her names - perhaps there are variations that would prefer?

Nothing ‘unclear’, bar your apparent belief that people on Mn do not actually also exist in the world.

I am French , and I enjoyed reading the answers lmao most the names given are 80yo women names or very 70/80's.

I’m part French. Four of mine are in the current top 100 but many of those I either don’t like or are the same in English. I chose other names I like regardless of fashion.

As its for use here fashions in France are irrelevant. Liam Evan and Kevin are quite big in France and they’re very dated here.

My daughter's friend is Aude-Elyse. I live her name

Gallivespian

You said “they” as in English people. Just pointed out that it’s not all English people. I don’t know anyone who couldn’t pronounce Manon, thus posters on here may not be representative.

A friend of mine woth French husband has named her little girl Audrey, I think named for his great gran. It's a beautiful name.

Tatiana, I'm the one who owned up to not knowing how to pronounce Manon. I'm not living under a rock, I have a good degree and a professional job, I even have a French name! (Though it is not very French sounding.) But I don't speak French, did German at school, and have never encountered the name Manon in real life. Why would I know how to say it?

Because Manon des Sources and Manon Lescaut are famous book/film and opera regardless.

I can pronounce Spanish names despite the fact I don’t speak Spanish.

Why antagonise @TatianaLarina,
do you get a kick out of doing it?

I’d check yourself on that front Mike.

Ok, well I've seen two operas, but never heard of that one, and have a first class degree in English Literature from a red brick, but not read any French literature I'm afraid. And the film was released when I was three. 🤷

There you go again. You know it all don't you.Or at least you think you do.

Odette, Odile and Mireille are all in their 60’s.
Delphine, Carine, Elodie etc pushing 40.
If my daughter’s friends names I like Blanche, Alice, Constance, Marine, Milla ( though not French), Clarisse, Céleste.