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?

Well, this Martine was born in 1941, but she's not vile. I think the name was actually chosen because Mama's papa was Mexican-American and they all spoke Spanish and French in the home so they needed something that would work in both languages.

My papa usually calls her Martina in Spanish because that is his native language but she doesn't mind.

We call her Mamacita when we want to wind her up .

It was fine back then but it is no longer fine.

My grandmother was called Brenda. She was a lovely, lovely woman. But I would never call, or recommend anyone do anything but avoid, the name Brenda today.

Marine
Océane
Clementine
Camille
Chloé
Léna
Amelié
Mathilde
Lorna
Laurrine
Angéle
Lucié
Casandra

These are the girls I can remember in dc's classes.

carlotta
adrianna
francine
audra

I knew a girl called Yvette in Strasbourg and she was such a cow.

Put me off the name forever, the man-scamming little trollop she was.

the Spanish name Belen (can't do accents on this laptop) sparks similar reaction in me.

Danielle.

Paulette

Agree, Belén is horrid.

Ophélie

In my daughter's class (4 year olds) there are:

Joanne
Gloria
Donna

I had a dance teacher in France called Odille and she was gorgeous.

Marie-Therese

is it fRance where you have to choose from a list of pre-approved names?

Héloïse
Noémie

A beautiful, beautiful French name is Delphine

Not any more, they have chilled a bit.

There is a Fleurange too, somewhere in my daughter's year

Fleurange?! Oh.deary.me.

Is Caroline popular in France atm?

ah - was wondering if it was available online anywhere for purposes such as this thread.

and also wondering how gloria and donna got on there?

i really like florence pronounced the french way.

I don't know many young Carolines here. There are certainly quite a few in my generation and above.

Florence is quite old fashioned too, these days.

Caroline not popular atm in England either... think it's a pretty name (esp French pronounciation)

Inès
Charlotte