Thoughts on our shortlist for a girl

[BillieBlack]

Not sure which is my favourite. In no particular order...

Margot
Clementine
Odette
Matilda
Etholle
Frederica

We have a French surname. And if I like these names do you have any other suggestions?

Odette is lovely.

Clémentine or Matilda are my favourites. What about Ottilie?

I love Clementine❤️

I like Clementine but I love the name Ottilie suggested a PP.

Margot - no, sounds harsh and aged
Clementine - love, really nice name also there's a character in the walking dead game franchise called this and she was amazing
Odette - love, really classy

Matilda - nice, quite popular though and Tilly seems like a dogs name to me I actually know dogs called Tilly
Etholle - basically a prettier spelling of Ethel which I think is dreadful, makes me think of a 90yo sorry
Frederica - pretty and unusual I like it

Genevieve?

I like Odette.

Clementine or Frederica

Yes, Ottilie is beautiful - I shall add to my list.
Etholle is pronounced et-olly, so quite similar to Ottilie. Perhaps Etholle would be too hard for people to pronounce?

Clementine and Matilda are lovely.

I'm not keen on the rest.

Mathilde would be a nice alternative to Matilda. I prefer Odile to Odette.

Odette is lovely. I also like Violette (have a friend with that name)

Etholle - never heard this name before but it sounds beautiful! And I pronounced it in my head the way you describe it in your update comment. Otherwise, I really like Margot too. The others on your list not to my choice but they are all perfectly fine names.

Lovely list of names. I like Clementine, Margot and Matilda best and I'm quite drawn to Etholle even though I've not come across it before. I guessed at the pronunciation (same as you've said). When I saw it on your list, it reminded me of Etoile (star).

Love Margot Matilda Clementine and Ottilie ❤️
Not keen on others

Just throwing Juliette into the mix

Love Clementine or Matilda.

Clementine and Matilda are quite nice. Not sure about the others. You may also like Camille, Coralie and Elodie.

Clementine, Margot and Matilda are all lovely, but Frederica stands out to me as the most unusual and beautiful. I've never met one irl and would be charmed to meet a little girl with this name.

Like a pp suggested, I'd also consider Mathilde as fitting in a bit better with the others / your French surname, and being a bit of a twist on Matilda, which is currently quite popular.

Odette is my favourite, followed by Margot.

Margot is my favourite
Love that name.

Clementine is my favourite.

Marguerite
Cosette
Manon
Claudia
Stella
Emma
Agnes
Josephine
Cecile
Sabine
Aurelia
Louise
Claire
Sylvia
Marianne
Lucia
Victoria
Leonie
Sophie

Love Margot, Clementine and Frederica.
Ottilie is awful - sounds like a women's complaint!
If you want something a bit French sounding, how about Sandrine, Sylvie, Gabrielle or Mireille?

All lovely except Etholle- if you live in the UK I think most people would assume it’s pronounced eth-ole

I like your first four, though Matilda / Tilly is very, very popular. Mathilde is nice.

Odette is probably my favourite. It's unusual but recognisable (I think of the WWII spy, on which theme, how about Violette?), easy to pronounce and spell.

Margot is lovely. Grown-up but actually quite cute too. I think it's becoming fashionable within the same population niche that has favoured Ottilie and Beatrice over the last ten years.

Etholle looks like Ethel. I think Brits would commonly mispronounce that.

Frederica, hmm. Fred-er-REEK-a. Reek = smell. That may just be me. I like Freda / Frida.

I really like Camille.

Oh I love Sylvie and Mireille too. How about Aurelie?