Pascale

[mato]

French DH wants a name I really do like - Pascale - for our daughter but not sure how it will go down here. Think Britain's playgrounds are ready?

Yes.

I think its a lovely name, really pretty.

love it. very cosmopolitan. and everyone knows the french are sexy/romantic/wacky/cool.

no brainer. why have a dull old english name when you can have a suave sophisticated french name?

Knew a Pascale at school (she was v cool). So yes

lovely.

Lovely.

hmm sorry to put a spanner in the works, but I prefer other French girl names such as 'Simone' (my favourite!), and still quite unusual but more widespread than 'Pascale'.

Really pretty name- go for it. I have an unusual name and although there were some raised eyebrows in 1980s playgrounds it is so different now. Had no qualms about giving my son a name reflecting his heritage and no raised eyebrows at school!

mato, very nice name. Another lovely french name is Etienne, male or female.

i always liked etienne and assumed it was female, but its not, its steven in french. still lovely tho.

really lovely. can imagine it suiting a young girl and an adult.

Pascale is lovely. A very good choice

Lovely name.

I knew a Pascale at school. Her sister was Claudine (an equally nice name, I think)

Etienne was on our list (well pretty much only boys name) - DH is french.

I like Pascale - certainly not outlandish

good name. also like Celine,

I like Pascale - knew a French girl with that name at school
Also knew a Sandrine and my pen pal was a French girl called Sylvie. There are two half French girls locally called Amelie.

J'adore
And the problem of combining it injudiciously with eg Higginbotham or any other very English family name will not be an issue

I like it a lot. Unusual, elegant and hard to shorten.

Sylvie, after la Vartan I guess MaryAnn
All the French penpals I knew were Sandrine, Sylvie or Valerie, vive les 70!

yes, I always think of Sylvie Vartan ( and Johnny Hallyday!)

That's Mr Smets to you
I hear he has finally, finally retired

lovely name,
i love french name,specially girls mane.

I always think he must be dead by now...along with Claude Francois - it all reminds me of family holidays in France when I scoured the magazine racks in the Monoprix