Italian, Spanish or French girls names...

[HeadFairy]

I realise that's quite a wide brief...

Dh's family is Italian, my dad's family is Italian, my mum's family is Argentine with some French. I have a French first name, dh has an Italian first name, ds has an Italian first name (Luca) so I'm a bit stumped for girls names.... never thought I'd be having a girl, so I never gave it a thought!

Italian ones:

Caterina
Lavinia
Virginia
Corinna
Arianna
Elena
Viola
Regina
Federica
Luna
Asia
Roberta
Marilisa
Martina

Re: Giovanna. "Maria Giovanna" is a name for marijuana in Italian (you may not care but I thought you should know just in case!).

If you wanted a spanish C
Carmen

italian
Carlotta

french
Cécile

ooooooooooh i know its not my baby lol, i'm not even pregnant but i love carlotta.... definitely gonna use that one if i ever have another girl...
my dd is called anaia.. pronounced an-iy-ah

italian..
Rosaria
Lucia.. pronounced loo-chee-ah
Cenzina.. pronounced chen-zina
or taylia

My half Spanish niece is Miranda if that helps?

And my Sicilian Great grandmother was Rosaria.

Nicolette

How about Gigliola? Prettier and more unusual than Giovanna but similar sounding. Hard to pronounce for Brits though. (Mind you, I can't bear Giovanna pronounced as if it had 4 syllables - gee-oh-van-nah - so that would be just as bad as assorted mutilations of Gigliola for me.)

Or, in the 'C's...

Chiara
Carla
Clara
Cara
Caterina
Cassandra
Clotilde (maybe not?)

Other Italian names:
Anna
Alessandra
Arianna
Angelica
Antonella
Antonia
Angela
Beatrice (Bice [bee-chay] for short)
Elisa
Elena
Fulvia
Flavia
Francesca
Franca
Giulia
Giuseppina (Pina for short)
Ilaria
Laura
Lucia
Maria
Maddalena
Margherita
Mariella
Olivia
Sara
Serena
Susanna
Tania
Veronica

Please not Gigliola - it's lovely, but I cringe every time I hear an English person saying Tagg-li-a telly! Imagine what it would be like to hear your child called Gigg-li-ola a hundred times a day!

Gigliola.... argh... Sounds very "prissy"... Pls don't...

Gabriella covers Spain and Italy.

Macarena, call her Mac or Maca.

Agadoo for a boy?

Solange

LOL. My kids called the Gigliola we know 'Jelly-La-La' for a while!

So what is the correct pronounciation of GIGLIOLA, I'm curious.

Another one for the list - Giordanna

Zebra- Gigliola should be pronounced "Jil-yola" (3 syllables) with the accent on the O...

here are some other Italian names that may not have been mentioned:
Claudia
Cinzia
Costanza
Cristina
Maura
Marianna
Raffaella

I like Alessia, Lira, Adorarata, Bianca, Rosina, Cornelia and Alba.

I love Innes with a passion and also Ana but pronounced in a lovely spanish way.

Blanca
Ester
Laura
Nuria
Amalia

For French names, this resource is really useful...follow the link/prompts to find top or even all Quebec baby names last year

www.rrq.gouv.qc.ca/en/enfants/Pages/banque_prenoms.aspx

Some lovely names on here... but I imagine HeadFairy has already made her choice... thread is a year old!