French name we'd love as much as Inès?

[Noname94]

Hi everyone

I'm due another girl early March and we don't have a single name we both love.

Our DD is Inès (French heritage). We'd like something French that would also work here and is ideally shortish like Inès. We'd like it to complement her name if that's possible. To me, Inès was pretty but not too flowery or twee, a bit modern (but not too much so) and a bit less common compared to more classic names like Sophie and Amelie for example, although these are both beautiful names.

Thank you in advance!

Is Mercedes too long?

Chloe
Salomé
Anouk
Maëlle or Maëlys
Anaïs

Beatrice
Solange

How about Céleste, Astrid, Alix, Thémis ?

Cosette
Josephine
Audrey (like Audrey Tatou)
Eloise
Vianne
Anouk
Camille
Daphne
Helene

I rather like Laurence, with a French pronunciation. The trouble is you'd have everyone assuming she was a boy.

My first thought was Chloë.

My ds has a French girlfriend, she's called Hélène, but in Scotland goes by Nell. I think both names are really pretty.

I also like Manon, which several people have mentioned.

Wow! So many responses already. Thank you all. I will go through all your replies with my DH tonight.

Thank you for the parenting advice, albeit unsolicited, but do you actually have a name suggestion rather than commenting on the name of my oldest child who was named several years ago?

Given you want short names Odile, Sylvie, Solange Hipolite or Jeanne. I also like Apolline, Heloise and Aurelia

Not putting superscripts in sorry but Thylane, Thais, Agnes, Avriel,

What? No she won’t. What a ridiculous thing to say

I thought it was a French name, from the Spanish Inés. No wonder that poor little French never made a name for herself. What were M & Mme de la Fressange thinking?

Some really lovely names suggested on this thread!

I was going to suggest Anais, Alize and Maia (all mentioned already and apologies for not including the accents!)

Brigitte
Noe
Odette
Alara
Aurelia or Aurelie
Jolie or Joelle
Silke
Tallia
Catia

Fleur

Sylvie, but I also know a cool young French Maud so I'll throw Maud into the ring too.

Elise?

Simone

Don’t shoot the messenger, not my fault if OP
isn’t clear enough

Ines is a lovely name, it is used in France, Ines de la Fressange is the quintessential Parisian woman and all that (her mom was Spanish btw), so I understand the connection OP makes, but the name itself is not French (or it would be Agnes)

Eh??

Sylvie is very pretty.

Elodie, Elise, Agnes

I’ve always really loved the name Solene (I can’t figure out how to put the accent or whatever it is over the first ‘e’.

Sylvie sounds lovely with Inès