Thoughts on the name Odette?

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Wondering the general consensus on the name Odette as either a first name or middle name? We love ballet and are drawn to French names x

It’s a pretty name but in the ballet Odette is cursed and it all ends badly so that would put me off. Bit like Ophelia, Giselle or Cosette, I would struggle with those names too due to tragic associations.

I love Minette…

It's a lovely name and very pretty I think! I also know a very lovely Odette.

I think of Odette Churchill , a brave and remarkable woman.

I like Odette

Odile is nice too. I knew one in France whose siblings called her Croc for short.

So did I,it's a nice name.

Lots of names have French roots - as long as they can be pronounced easily, they can work well in English

I love Collette it's classy

not keen personally
i like yvette and yvonne though as well as colette

Odette is my middle name! After Odette Churchill. I didn’t like it as a child but it’s grown on me. I’d almost consider it as a first name for my child now but I think the early dislike has just tainted it for me!

Odette is a grandma’s name in France - see also Colette and Yvette.

The kind of names that the English think of as quintessentially French are not necessarily at all stylish in France now.

From ballets I like Manon, Giselle and Aurora (prefer Aurélia).

Pretty.
easy to pronounce.

Pretty name, war heroine. Like it.

In my head Odette sits in a cafe, smoking Gauloise and listening to the accordion player playing La Vie En Rose, whilst forlornly thinking about her lost love....

Makes me think of the character in Stephen King novels. Diminutive was Detta

I adore this name! I think is beautiful and deeply underrated. :)

I would always avoid a name that would make a lot of people from the same culture as you say "Sorry-I didn't catch that" and I'm afraid Odette is one of those. Thm

Sorry but it made me think of the word "odour".

Me too! Great name! Great role model.

My grandmothers name! She’d be nearly 100 now. And DD’s middle name. Only reason we didn’t first name it was our surname has 3 ‘t’s and it was a bit of a mouthful. Love it.

My lovely aunt was called Odette. She lived to be 93 and was one hell of a woman: lived "in sin" and had a child out of wedlock. At the time, this was extremely frowned upon.
She was a "bon vivante". Her only regret was that she should have partied more!
Odette stands for strong women. Go for it!