Sibling for Inès

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Hi all,

We're having a surprise sex-wise at the birth in a couple of month and still undecided. We'd like something that'll work in France and England please. We like shortish names ideally.

Thank you.

Ines is delightful. Please excuse my lack of accents.

Manon
Celine
Sylvie
Alba
Thea

Bruno
Guy
Basile
Leon
Olivier

Elea
Lena
Ember
Elise
Solene
Margot
Ciel
Lilou
Alizee

Inès is a beautiful name.

Inès and Daphne
Inès and Gisèle
Inès and Elise

Inès and André
Inès and René
Inès and Pascal

Salomé
Loïs
Anna
Chloë
Zoë
Jasmine

David
Marc
Louis
Guy

Esme
Lois

Bruno and Carmen sound like siblings of Ines

We have a Hugo and are bilingual (french and english) and so far it has been a hit and no issues with either language

Colette
Lena
Mia
Maeve
Cora
Anouk

Remi
Jules
Aubin
Joel
Ruben

Ines and Olivier sound perfect together if it's a boy

For a girl.....Ines and Elara ?

Doesn't the accent on Inés go the other way (i.e. how I've put it)?

Or Ines and Anais

From Google:

The most common form Inés is Spanish, and also Galician. The Portuguese form is Inês; the French, Moroccan and Tunisian form usually Inès

Ah. Never met a non-Spanish Inés. Whichever way, it's a beautiful name.

What about Guy for a boy?

@Elektra1 , in Spanish, the accent indicates that the syllable is stressed. In French, it changes the sound of the letter.

I love Elise

My daughter's name pronounced A-leeez

Hi all. Thank you for the great suggestions so far - and some compliments too! It's not for everyone but it suited our daughter and she's really grown into it.

We are still totally open to new suggestions but before now had shortlisted Manon, Eloise, Amandine, Rose, Camille, Béatrice, Olivier, Raphaël, Max... Some great names mentioned are already in the family/our friendship groups eg Celine, Alizée, Louis, Hugo.

I love Guy but my husband is not so keen unfortunately. I must admit I do love it more in English than the French which sounds to me like 'ghee'.

Same with Jules - I love, he doesn't.

Anais is lovely but quite similar to Inès in the French pronunciation. We actually considered it for her.

Inès is lovely. I'm not keen on Anaïs.

My favourites from your shortlist are Camille and Olivier

Gorgeous names

Cassandra
Adam

I love the name Inès

Some good suggestions for girl's names on this recent thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/baby_names/5171475-help-punchy-unusual-french-girl-names

If Inès had a sister, my favourite options would be...
Adèle
Clémence (Clem for short)
Daphné
Emma
Léa
Luna

And if Inès had a brother, my faves would be...
Clément (Clem for short)
Léo
Maxime (Max)
Noah
Oscar

Lilou
Madeleine
Alizee
Claude
Nicolas
Louis

Sylvie
Chloe
Zoe
Genevieve (could be a Gigi?)
Gabriel
Adam
Theo

I'm quite invested in this now, please tell us what you land on when the baby arrives!

No suggestions but came on to say that Ines is a lovely name.

Love the name Ines.

How about:
Marie
Luisa
Claire
Tara
Aimee
Delphine
Colette
Estelle

Thierry
Jeremy
León
André
Marcel
Jason