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French name we'd love as much as Inès?

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Noname94 · 25/02/2025 14:53

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!

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ShannonBailey · 25/02/2025 16:38

Agnes and Ines are versions of the same name.

melonhead · 25/02/2025 16:41

Sophie
Mila
Rose
Lilou
Lois
Juliette
Julia
Andrea
Alice
Margot
Mathilde
Zoe

catmothertes1 · 25/02/2025 16:48

Bbq1 · 25/02/2025 15:02

Yves

That's a boy's name in French.

Choconuttolata · 25/02/2025 16:51

Avril
Joya
Lena/Lina
Olympe
Renée
Yseult

whatonearthisgoingonnow · 25/02/2025 16:54

Echobelly · 25/02/2025 15:04

I think Colette is a lovely French name

Sounds like a bleach blonde barmaid out of Corrie.

CatherinedeBourgh · 25/02/2025 16:56

Inès is French, as the è does not exist in Spanish, in Spanish it is Inés.

ThePearlBee · 25/02/2025 16:56

@whatonearthisgoingonnow seriously? That's your context for Colette? Have you ever read a book?

I was going to say Anouk Op but lots have beaten me to it. So on the Colette theme, I'm going to suggest Sidonie.

DramaAlpaca · 25/02/2025 16:59

Manon or Noemi are both lovely. As is Sylvie, though it might be a bit dated.

Noa might be nice, too. Or Iseult.

SunnyCrab · 25/02/2025 17:01

I like Noelle and Fleur!

semideponent · 25/02/2025 17:03

Solange
Celine
Alix

whatonearthisgoingonnow · 25/02/2025 17:05

ThePearlBee · 25/02/2025 16:56

@whatonearthisgoingonnow seriously? That's your context for Colette? Have you ever read a book?

I was going to say Anouk Op but lots have beaten me to it. So on the Colette theme, I'm going to suggest Sidonie.

Yep, thousands. Doesn't mean the name hasn't been appropriated by chavs.

CocoapuffPuff · 25/02/2025 17:06

Severine
Dominique
Justine
Eve

liftthatup · 25/02/2025 17:08

Nadeige

strangeandfamiliar · 25/02/2025 17:12

Chantal
Gisele
Ottilie
Anouk
Eloise

Thingymajigii · 25/02/2025 17:12

Chloé

dovetail22uk · 25/02/2025 17:15

Noname94 · 25/02/2025 14:53

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!

Eléa or Anaïs

Crikeyalmighty · 25/02/2025 17:19

Elodie
Zara
Zoe
Amelie
Genevieve
Vivienne
Rosalie

Trallers · 25/02/2025 17:20

It's not a French origin name, but I love Athéna (much prefer the French pronunciation to the English).

LondonSchoolsHelp · 25/02/2025 17:22

whatonearthisgoingonnow · 25/02/2025 17:05

Yep, thousands. Doesn't mean the name hasn't been appropriated by chavs.

Colette is a common name amongst the Irish diaspora (after the saint). By chavs, I think you likely mean people with Irish heritage who live in places like Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.

lucindalucinsa · 25/02/2025 17:24

Alys
Anais

MattSaracenQB1 · 25/02/2025 17:25

Cosima nn cici
Lena
Alma
Claudine

FedUpandEatingChocolate · 25/02/2025 17:26

Another vote for Manon, it's so lovely.

There are lots of lovely names in here though.

roselilylavender · 25/02/2025 17:31

Cecile

Porkyporkchop · 25/02/2025 17:32

suzanne

AmiablePedant · 25/02/2025 17:37

Claire
Fleur
Therese (sorry for absent acute and grave accents!)