Alma & Inès

[Clucie]

DH and I are expecting twin girls. DH is French but they will be raised mostly in the UK. Our favourite names right now are Alma & Inès.
What's everyone's thoughts?
Full names we are thinking Alma Manon and Inès Maria.

Middle names are rarely used. The names are nice.
I don't like Alba at all.

Here (admittedly with a Merseyside accent) it's usually ih-ness.

You are going to have to live with people missing the è accent off Inès. If you don't have the è, it's pronounced Eenus.

Love the name Alma, I live in Spain and know a few.

I love them both

Love Ines (and Manon) but Alma is very much a not cool old lady name in my neck of the UK, along the lines of Bertha, Morag and Ethel. Makes me think of Alma in Coronation Street and one of the Australian soaps.

Perfect. Job done. Enjoy them.

Love them both however I really don’t like Alma with Manon, do you have any other options for middle names?

Ines and Manon are beautiful. I love them both. Alma is okay and I suppose it works well with Ines I don’t think it works well with Manon though. I much prefer Alba. Maria is lovely as a first name but it always seems like a generic filler name when it’s a middle name.

I love Louise but it is very unpopular on MN!

Ines and Alma are beautiful individually and as a pair.

Alma and Ines and both beautiful names, they sound great together!

Marion is my grandmother's name so I'm a fan but not with Alma i'm afraid..... it's the tongue tying ma-ma sound

Just seen this and laughed as I have 3.5 year old twin girls called….. Alma and Inès (also French spelling as French father). Still love both names and get lots of compliments on the names. Alma has more recently become the no. 1 name for girls born in Paris so maybe a bit more popular than I’d like now but still not too popular in the UK for anyone considering in 2025/6.
Inès needs the accent in French (otherwise would be pronounced ‘in’ ) although it then does have a different emphasis from the Spanish name which goes up with the second syllable. I’m not fussed if people just write Ines, and often won’t bother to use the accent myself when texting etc

But anyway, what are the odds!

I really like Manon. But I don’t think Alma Manon works as a combo.

Ines is lovely; Alma will definitely be drawing the short straw! Sorry, but it’s just not as interesting or beautiful - it’s mushy in the mouth, especially when paired with Manon.

Another vote for Ines and Alba. I don't dislike Alma it just feels a bit less special.

I think Beatrice is much better with Ines. Beatrice Manon could work beautifully.

I really don’t like Alma. Manon is lovely, maybe make that her first name?

This thread is a year old, people!

I would go for Manon and Ines personally, but I think Alma is lovely too. It’s just a bit “old lady” outside France.

I absolutely love Alma.

Inès is a lovely name but if someone gets the accent or pronunciation wrong, will it annoy you? I know a Spanish Inés, is that pronounced differently?

I love those names. And thet go very well together

They go beautifully together

I love, especially Alma, I’ve never heard it before.

@NameChange30ops! I wonder what the babies are called!

Both lovely.

(And I can’t remember when I last said that on a baby names thread! Good taste, OP.)