I like the name 'Jolie' ....

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It sounds pretty and it means 'pretty'

but will people think 'Angelina' straight away?

I'm just trying to sort out another list to show DH

reminds me a bit of joleen cream bleach

Is it really a first name though?

it's pretty., I know someone with that name.

i like it.
but i'm not much of a heat reader so wouldn't think of angelina straight away.

it is not really a name is it? it's a word..

you will have to put up with her being called Jolly, rather than the softer Jolie

or Joe-lee pronunciation

IMO

No - please no.

How about Annabel or Isabel shortened to Belle or Bella. Same meaning, but more choices.

Imagine being a fat, spotty shy teenager called Jolie.

PMSL at that Joleen cream, I worked in a chemist and remember this old dear with hair as black as soot and a ginger 'tash because she used to use that stuff!

You could go for Joely, which is a first name

Joely is very pretty, not keen on Jolie.

i prefer Julie

Jolie is like a clowns name

and its maybe too much like Joey?
chidlren round here still use that as an insult

I agree with NP. I think Julie is very retro and you are not likely to come across many babies with this name. I know someone who spell it Ju-Leigh if you wanted to be really different!

How long do you have to go?

I know one. I think it's nice. Oh - the one I know is in her 30s!

Jolie means "pretty" in french. I know that the name DJAMILA (arabic name) means "pretty" or "beautiful" and I would not be surprised if most languages actually use their translation of Pretty as a girls name. I think it is a charming name indeed, I have never heard it yet but it could become very fashionable to be called Jolie.

I once worked with a girl called Pretty

nothing like being direct about these things...

Apart from Angelina, the only context I have ever heard the word Jolie is in the French expression "jolie-laide."

laide means ugly and the term is meant to mean someone who is not conventionally beautiful but who is nonetheless attractive.

However, most of the time it is used as a polite euphamism for ugly.

Until your post today I didn't know Jolie meant pretty and I always wondered why Angelina had chosen a word which I thought implied ugliness for her surname.

Julie was on our baby names list actually
i really like it

I always wanted to be called Julie.

NB for similar sounds consider

Zoe (can't get the diaresis on this keyboard )

Chloe

i think it's her mother's name.

I wanted to be NP's first name.

There is a Joley in DS1's class at preschool. The name really suits her as she is blond with ringlets

On the upside, OP, by the time your DD is grown up no one will probably even have heard of Angelina.

i love Chloe. Unfortunately my parents had a mad boss eyed bearded collie called that so it was out for my dd.

waht do you mean fimbs?

(your name was on our list too btw!)