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!

Pascale

Celeste

Ines and ..
Claudine
Clotilde
Madeleine
Victoria

Ok then. Very similar. Alright? Same root, the greek Hagne, or holy.

Manon

Genevieve
Fabienne
Corinne
Carine
Renee
Louise
Dominique
Danielle

Most of these are middle-aged women's names in France.

Some nature names that might work too

Erlea
Iolite
Lys
Mavis
Merle
Myrrhe
Oseille
Perídot (Perrie for short)
Rubis

I agree @NameChange30 . These threads always seem to be like that. Those look like the names of women 50+ y o to me.

Naming a child is giving them an important foundation to their identity, the more so when you want to celebrate an heritage and bring cultural references.

It is not pedantic to say it should be correct (or correctly explained) to be meaningful, it is a lifetime decision someone else than you will bear the consequences of, try to be responsible and do due diligence, especially when the barrier to knowledge is 5 seconds on Google

Imagine an Ines believing her name is French travelling to Spain, introducing herself with a big smile “hello I am Ines, even if my name sounds French, I m from the UK”, the Spaniards are going to have a good laugh and Ines is not going to look very smart, will she?

I doubt that would happen @nfkl . The child is Inès so might have to correct the accent on the e if it gets written as Inés.

Imagine an Ines believing her name is French travelling to Spain, introducing herself with a big smile “hello I am Ines, even if my name sounds French, I m from the UK”, the Spaniards are going to have a good laugh and Ines is not going to look very smart, will she?
OP's daughter is probably not the sort to come out with that sort of spiel.

Warn your daughters! If you have an Amelie, Vivienne or Elodie, or if you are Alison, Marie or Suzanne, whatever you do don't visit France. They will laugh at you.

@ShannonBailey why?

-Nora
-Énora
-Léonie
-Faye (French origins rather than being outwardly french)
-Maëlle/Maëlis/Maëlys
-Nolwenn
-Solenne

@Princessfluffy They won't. It was a joke because 1 or 2 posters can't accept that Inès is a name suitable for a girl who is French.

Ah well. I suppose they will be a la mode again in due course.

But isn't the French version Agnès?

Heads up - you are coming across as really not a nice person, which I’m sure is not the case.

Love Manon
also
Solange
Garance

@holidayblues25 Yes, but Inès is too.

@SineJoanie Maybe, but not for about 40 years. It's a bit like if Susan, Helen,Catherine, Carol, Linda, Deborah and Gillian were suggested for an English baby girl.

Celine

Suzanne is mega on point among the Paris chatterati, as it happens. And just to put the cat among the pigeons, Ines is also an Arabic girl's name widely used in France meaning generous.

Also lol at calling a baby girl Merle. That's not going to lend itself to unfortunate nicknames at all.

OP if you want to be on trend, Anouk and Zélie are your best bets.

Where are you getting these from? They sound like either patent diarrhea medicines or slang terms for shit or hard cash.

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