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What are your favorite French girls' names?
Lately I've been interested in French names for girls. Which are your favorites? Feel free to explain why if you'd like. Thanks!
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Thanks, all!Some really nice suggestions :)
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Colette - I like the associated prestige of Colette the author
Odette - I love Swan Lake
Margot - again, maybe because I love ballet
Josephine
Marguerite
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Fleur
Clementine
Clotilde
Elodie
Emmeline
Morgane
Florence
Genevieve
Josephine
Margot
Sylvie
Leontine
Violette
Eugenie
Coralie
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Alix- So spunky and uncommon, yet not weird, I just love it.
Arielle- One of my absolute favourite names! Again, I love that it's quite uncommon and yet so pretty!
Desiree- I think it's cute for a child and yet sophisticated for a woman.
Sacha- I love both Sasha and Sacha =)
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I love French girls names! They are so pretty and melodic.My absolute favourites:Sylvie
Elodie
Delphine
Adelie
Vivienne
Azelie
Camille
Arielle
Lucienne
Anais
Amelie
Anouk
Athenais
Leonie
Maelys
Seraphine
Zephyrine
Zenaide
Zelie
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Oh no! I forgot Anouk and Vivienne!
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Adrienne
Annette
Camille
Chantal - pity it's become tacky as Chantelle etc in the USA
Charlotte
Claire
Delphine - love, love, love this
Françoise
Georgette
Isabelle
Jacqueline
Liliane
Lisette - love this as a mn
Louise
Marguerite - love this princess name; nn Margot if a nn wanted
Mireille - love, love this
Nadine
Pascale
Pauline
Rosalie
Sylvie
Veronique
Viviane
Yvette

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Juliette
Maëlys
Sidonie
Sylvie
Gigi
Aliénor / Éléonore
Margot / Margaux
Marion
Clémence
Aurélie
Élise
Marcelle
Victoire
Marine
Léa
Élodie
Flore
Béatrice
Delphine
Océane
Luce
Odette
Valérie
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Apologies for missing accent marks.Adele
Adrienne
Alexandrie (probably not usable in English but I really like it)
Alexandrine
Alix
Ariane (ah-ree-AHN; would never use it due to visual similarity to Aryan...yikes)
Camille --One of my favorite names. I love Camille.
Chantal --This is considered kind of trashy in the US, which is a bummer since it's so pretty.
Claire (another favorite)
Delphine
Eleonore
Eliane
Elodie
Gabrielle
Jacinthe (I have a lot of trouble with the correct pronunciation but it's lovely when a French speaker says it)
Josephine
Josiane
Lea
Leonie
Liliane
Lucie
Lucienne
Madeleine
Maeva
Marie (first name only)
Marielle
Mathilde
Mireille
Noelle
Noemie
Rosalie
Sabine
Seraphine
Sylvie
Victoire
Violette
Vivienne
Viviane
Zephyrine (awesome but not usable)
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Cécile.It's been a favorite since I was a teenager, and sometimes it has risen to my No. 1.Geneviève. How can anyone not find this gem evocative?Irène.Pronounced ee-RENN. So elegant and pointy, with a smooth resolution.Jacqueline.I am really starting to love it, but only pronounced zhak-LEEN.Margot.Oh, the sass. Love me some Margot.Louise.Louise has taken my No. 4 spot lately. It's so darling.

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Josephine
Marguerite
Catherine ("caht-treen")
Nadine (sister's name)
Claire
Charlotte

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My favourites are:
Arianne
Coralie
Mireille
Clementine
I like the french form of Amelia-Amelie
Éliane
There is the name MAËLLE which I like but don't know how to pronounce.
Orianne
Sylvie
Violette

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Ah! this is totally my thing. I will just give you those of my user list, but my favorite French name is Clarisse, as it is my daughter's name and I fully admit to bias. Anyway...
Adrienne, Annette, Aurelie, Adélie and Arlette start the list with As. I find all of them more beautiful than their English counterparts and classy enough for real life use. Brigitte and Camille I have always loved, and I feel like they are just classy and strong names. They give the appearance of frill, but are still very bold. I like Chantal a lot too, but that is not used as much in France, just French. The rarer choices I like include Edmée, Fabiola and Faustine, as well as Félicie (but that is in honor of my sister Felicia).Giselle, Juliette and Vivienne are very recognizable at this point, and even popular - but I still love them, both for history and meaning. They are very romantic and stylish as well. Some of my absolute faves, that I am hesitant to actually use because people may falter on pronunciation, are Zénaïde, Solène, Maylis, Mélisande, Méline, Amandine and Dieudonnée. My husband likes many of these ones though - so we may yet decide to go bold and choose one of these (unlikely).
The last of my list are names that are not that common, but fairly straightforward and normal by most standards: Nadine, Suzette, Priscilla, Celeste and Daphne. Nadine is our very top name for a girl right now... followed by Mirielle. Mirielle is technically an Americanized name, but it is very similar to Mireille, which I love by everyone forgets how to say.

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Chantal is used quite a lot where I live, usually as a stand-alone name, but sometimes hyphenated..Chantal-Renee, Chantal-Nichole.
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Nice, good to know. I love double-barreled names, especially French ones.
Chantal-Renee is lovely, and the meaning is beautiful.
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