Girls names to go with surname Emanuel

[judyem]

Any suggestions for pretty girls names to go with our surname Emanuel? struggling to think of any good ones!

Ruth
Seren
Harriet
Charlotte
Juliet
Mirren
Rose

Brooke
Skye
Nicole
Zara
Clara
Cara
Faye
Freya
Leonie
Heidi
Eliza
Elodie
Lucy

Eve
Sophie
Vivien

Ladies, I don't want to get inappropriately lairy on a baby names thread, but Eve Emanuel? Really? And don't you find that Cara Emmanuel requires a tricky glottal stop to transfer between the two words?

Like Vivien and Nicole a lot.

Niamh
Astrid
Laurel
Lauren
Anneliese
Kate
Colette
Cosette
Muireann
Eilidh
Aveline
Marie
Frances
Madeleine

Florence
Iris
Georgia
Hattie

Sarah
Natasha
Jenny
Amy
Beatrice
Lauren
Juliet
Harriet
Emily
Elena
Josie
Sasha
Maya
Ros ie

can't think of any more that "go" with your surname!

Not Gladys, whatever you do!

Beatrice
Carmen
Charis (pn Karris)
Iris
Jasmine
Lauren
Lois
Miriam
Tamsin
Vivienne

Elizabeth Emanuel sounds good, but you'd get sick of the comments about Di's wedding dress (old saddo emoticon).

Eliza was my immediate thought.

Alice
Edith
Simone
Sian
June
Frances
Sarah
Ingrid
Mia-Faye
Sally
Suzy
Sukey
Daisy
Hassl a
Mimiko
Hope

Aren't people just listing their fav names here? The point is to get a name that gos with the surname.

Looking at t he names given above, these flow well with Emanuel:
Charlotte
Sophie
Frances
Madeleine
Marie (if pronounced the French way)
Vivien(ne)
Elizabeth (despite connotations)
Sally
Suzy
Daisy
Alice

If it doesn't trip off the tongue don't go with it. Ones ending with y seem to work well.

I think names ending with an 'n' or 's' sounds are good with your surname.

Lauren
Caitlin
Vivienne
Marianne
Cerys
Francis
Lois
Alice

Definitely not names ending with 'e' or 'y' sounds.

So Catherine sounds OK, but Katie is hard to say.

Oh dear, I think that an 'n' sound doesn't go! Agree on the 's' sound - Frances very nice name as well (Francis to me is a boy's name), as is Alice. Charlotte and Harriet also go.

I dunno, I think an N sound echoes the N sound in Emanuel nicely without clashing.

I agree about the A sound -- too much of a stop before the E of the surname. I think a long E would work if Emanuel starts with a short E (as in Emma). If it's more like Eemanuel, then no EE ending to the first name.

Any softer consonant sounds and even a final T or TH would work (Kate, Colette, Suzette).

Thank you so much for all the suggestions! I agree about the n and l sounds - love Marianne and elena but think they're a bit of a mouthful with Emanuel. We have two Frances's in the family already, so that's out, Catherine's my eldest's middle name!

I really like Elizabeth (maybe a good middle name to avoid the diana issue) also Charlotte. We always have to spell our surname so an straightforward first name's a must!