Girl name ideas English/French/Indian

[VerbenaTsarina]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for ideas for girls names that are at least reasonably pronounceable and not ridiculous in a few languages.

We are both British and I'm half Indian and we have just moved to a French speaking country and could be staying for years. French/English/European ease of spelling/pronunciation more important than Hindi though. This is our first child.

Thanks

I don’t have a Hindi keyboard on my phone but ideally nothing with a prominent D or T (as in Aditi) as it will be mauled by monolingual English speakers. Nothing with R as it will be pronounced differently in each language although the French and English are close.

Girls I know with similar heritage (not actually that unusual because of Pondicherry and Mauritius) are called Leela, Natasha, Livia and Selina. Obviously those are missing the Sanskrit-origin cachet that upper caste Indians like but then you really are limiting your options.

Soraya

I've met a couple of Indian Serena's which I always think is pretty. And I think Anna and Maya are used in most countries?

Amaya
Eshana
Jaya
Leena
Leya
Nisha
Noor
Zoya

Coraline
Elise
Juliette
Sylvie
Amelie
Aurelie
Aveline
Celeste
Clementine
Coralie
Cosette
Elodie
Eloise
Fleur
Geneveive
Giselle
Manon
Margot
Mirabelle

Amara
Inaaya
Aisha
Khadija
Zainab
Hafsa
Shanika

Loads of ideas, thanks so much xxx

Nina
Anouk
Lila
Leonie
Colette
Adele
Noemie
Zoe

The first name that came to mind was Selina
I think this spelling is Indian, but the French Celine sounds very similar and is Celina in Spanish and Italian and also widely known in the UK.

Maya
Yasmin
Indira
Teresa (Mother Teresa)
Saira

Anoushka

@IamnotwhouthinkIam

I've met a couple of Indian Serena's which I always think is pretty. And I think Anna and Maya are used in most countries?

Serena is lovely and underused. Feels international and easy to pronounce to me. Much prettier than Selena.

Anna and Elisabeth are used all around the West.

Marina