Claire or similar... French names for girls

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I like the name Claire but am wondering if it's too popular. Any other ideas?

Clara?

Claire not popular anymore, was popular in 70's, you'd be very retro to use Claire.

Sylvie
Eloise
Madeleine
Mireille

My French niece is Clara

Matilde
Mathilde

Marie
Camille
Simone
Dominique

Elodie

I don't know a Claire under thirty, so not sure what you mean by popular.

I love Elodie, my son was going to be that if he was a girl. Although I went on to have another girl, I could not use Elodie because that was his 'female' name, the same way that I could not use my DD1's 'male' name for my first born son.

I adore Pascale.
It's on my list but we're not french so not sure if we'd get away with it.
Also Claudie / Claudine perhaps.
However, I do love Claire. I know a new baby called Claire actually and thought that was quite unusual as I don't know of any at school / nursery at the moment.

Esme
Amelie

Amelie is very pretty, love that one. I only know one Claire here, at ds2's library group. Maybe I just think it's popular because I'm tired of having it as my choice for a girl... if I'd had girls the first two times one of them would have been Claire!
I love Colette, but that's dh's cousin whom no one likes...

Elodie, Amelie, Elise (variant of Elisabeth), Camille, Delphine?

Lucie
Constance
Clementine
Beatrice
Emma
Nina
Roxanne
Annabelle
Anna
Isabelle

Sabine
Oceane

I have always thought Claudine a lovely name

Don't know how popular it is in France, though

I love the name Claire

isn't popular for little girls at the moment is it?

Claudine, Yvette, Sylvie, Mireille, Simone, Dominique, Pascale, Colette are all unacceptably deeply retro - think children born in 1930s/40s.

i like Camille

my sister is Clare and she is 21. i know one other Clare younger than her (so not an "old" name) and really like it.

were my sis not named it I would call a dd Clare

Fleur

my cousin is French and is called Lucie - is prounounced ever so slightly differently than in English and i think it is lovely too

My niece (4) is called Lucie. It's sweet and very popular right now.

LOVE LOVE LOVE Sylvie - is gorgeous!

Went to school with a Pascale - think that is very sweet too

Colette - wasn't she a well-known French writer? A bit risque?

My mother's mother was French.

My mama is called Martine and her sister is Lucie.

I like Martine as well

My MOL (b. 1938) is called Martine. It is a vile name. Please please please don't use it on some innocent baby