Camille Linnea Manon

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Hi,

After many years of trying, IVF and several losses I am now 32 weeks pregnant with our baby girl. DH is French and I am Norwegian.
We have decided on giving baby girl a French first name, mainly as my parents now live in the UK so we will spend less time in Norway (a week a year max) and also because we are more liked to move to France at some point than Norway. Obviously we also has a French surname so this will be more cohesive.

We have agreed on either 1 or 2 middle names as I do want a nod to baby girls Norwegian heritage in her name.

So far the winning French name is Camille, I love how pure and fresh it sounds. We also really like Manon but I like it more as a middle name.

My favourite name of all time is Linnea.

We would pronounce Camille the French way and are comfortable with the potential of correcting people, especially as a move to France is on the table in the next 5-10 years.

I really like Camille Linnea Manon but DH is worried it’s a bit long and my family worry that the 3 French - 1 well technically Swedish name means the Norwegian routes will be quickly forgotten.

Any opinions or ideas how we could make this work?

I think Camille Linnea Montaigne sounds fab. Not a big fan of Manon.

99% of the time she will only be referred to as Camille Montaigne, which sounds delightful!

Middle names, I feel, are a wonderful opportunity to honour family, friends or wishes of one partner who didn't get their first choice for first name. So really pick whatever you love however it sounds all that matters is it's important to you and your partner.

My children both have 2 middle names. One has both their grandfather's the other has my husbands first choice of a name and a great grandfather. They do not flow, they are a pain in the neck to put on forms but they're special and the children rather like them too!

Your name choices are really lovely.

Oh and congratulations!! Wonderful news! I'm so happy for you!

Thanks everyone DH thinks we should just do Camille Linnea Hansen Montaigne he said we can keep Manon incase we have another baby. I’d prefer Camille Linnea Manon Montaigne.

I prefer your choice too! 😄 But it's nice he'd prefer your name to be in there.

I would drop one middle name and just go Camille Linnea.

I'd swap the order to Camille Manon Linnea (or other third name). I think it flows better. I like the m, m, n, n, particularly the two Ms together, (then m-n-n in your surname).

The other way round seems much more of a mouthful to me.

I really like Camille too and think it works well with your surname.

I think you should definitely add your last name hyphenated.

And she won’t lose her Norwegian heritage as surely she’ll speak the language? Which if she’s going to be trilingual is bloody amazing.

Agree!!

Doesn't flow well because camille ends in L and Linnea starts with L. It all runs together. Then Manon is more Ns after Linnea!

Linnea Camille works better. Lose the Manon. It's too much. More ms. More Ns.

When we pronounce Camille there is no “l” sound

I love Camille (especially the French pronunciation). Not keen on Manon.
Not hear or linnea before, it’s a fairly nice sound but makes me think of linear.
would definitely say go for camille and if you like the others use as the middle names. I think using both is fine

So it is just cam-ee?

Linnea I feel is too close to 'alinéa' in French (=indent) so I wouldn't use it as a first name. Middle name is fine.

Is Linnea Li-NAY-a or LIN-nea? Or Li-naya?

I think all your names are lovely, I have to say! But I do agree that in the UK people will say Ca-MEEL or Ca-MILL, and although that doesn't feel annoying now, it might do further down the line.

I think people in the Uk could easily learn to say Cami as CA-mi but probably won't say Ca-MEE.

This is lovely. if you feel it is too long then drop Manon (although it is a lovely name). Save it for a potential sibling?

Camille Linnea Hanson-Montaigne

my kids have a hyphenated surname with the same syllables as this

But she will only ever be Camille Hansen Montaigne apart from on her birth certificate. DS has a long name because he has both our surnames, but I’d far rather he had a long name than that he only had one parent’s surname.