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[Opinions] What are your favorite French names?
by Laine
1/26/2008, 10:36 AM
I really like French names, and I like French pronunciations better of most names that have more than one. So, What are your favorites?
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- khaotickharma
1/26/2008, 7:53 PM
Oh, so many!I love love love French names! My faves are...Francoise
Chloe
Dominique
Emmanuelle
Genevieve
Melisande
Marjolaine
Romaine ETA: Ludivine, EloiseAugustin
Romain
Francois

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- Emma Jenny (Emma McHnery)
1/26/2008, 6:18 PM
nt.
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- Delphi_Blue
1/26/2008, 5:29 PM
Elodie!I love Elodie with the french pronounciation. Oh, and I love Delphine too- those two our my favourites.Others that spring to mind: (these would all be with accents in the appropriate places, but I've no idea how to type those in here)
Esmee
Renee
Amelie
Genevieve
Soleil (it's a word, but it is French ;)Etienne
Lucien
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- Snapdragon
1/26/2008, 5:09 PM
Amandine, Amélie, Charlotte, Delphine, Esmée, Fleur, Geneviève, Gisèle, Léonie, Lydie, Madeleine, Marguerite, Mathilde, Melisande, Rosalie, Rosemonde, Sophie, Tatienne, Virginie, VivienneJacques, Olivier, Philippe
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- Julia (JuliaF)
1/26/2008, 3:51 PM
With the French pronunciations (I don't know how to do French accents, so accents would go where necessary), they are:
Adam (ah-DAHM?)
Adelaide
Adele
Adrienne
Alexandrie
Alexandrine
Amelie
Anastasie
Anne
Ariane
Camille (girl, is cah-MEEL a legit French pronunciation or does it have to be cah-MEE?)
Caroline (-leen)
Celeste
Charlotte
Claire
Coralie
Corinne
Delphine
Eleonore
Eliane
Elisabeth
Elodie
Elise
Emilie
Gabrielle
Irene
Isabelle / Isabel
Lea
Liane
Liliane
Lucienne "Lucie"
Madeline / Madeleine
Marine
Mathilde
Melanie
Mirabelle
Natalie
(Noelle)
Noemie
Olivie
Raphael
Rosalie
Rose
Sabine
Seraphine
Sophie (so-FEE)
Simone
(Soleil)
Sylviane
Sylvie (seel-VEE)
Theodore (tay-oh-DORE)
Virginie
Vivienne
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- lala
1/26/2008, 3:37 PM
Alexandrie
Victoire
Helene
Madeleine (pronounced the French way of course ;-))
Amelie
Béatrice
Etienne
Alexandre
Phillipe
Giselle
Thérese
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- LoQuiero   +1
1/26/2008, 2:04 PM
There are many interesting, adorable French names...
Off the top of my head:girls:
Gwenaëlle
Annick
Anouk
Magali(e)
Liénor
Avril
Amaurie
Alodie
Cécile
Maëlle
Maëlys
Hervée
Isabeau
Laël
Lourdes
Noémie
Océane
Mélisande
Yaël
Yseult / Iseult
Phélineboys:
Amaël
Maël
Gwenaël
Bénau
Corbeau
Ézekiel
Noé
Yann
ThéophileI especially love medieval French names and Provençal names.

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- Mrs Claire (Miss Claire)
1/26/2008, 3:34 PM
I must say that I have never seen Liénor used, but it may be Middle Ages.
Avril, as far as I know, is not used.
Amaurie is a boy name (Amaury). Laël, never heard of except as male Hebrew name.
Alodie and Phéline may be from the Middle Ages? I have never heard them used. Same for Lourdes, because it has a bad meaning in French ("heavy").I haven't met Amaël and Bénau, but they might be Breton or any other "non mainstream" origin. Corbeau means "raven"... I am not aware of its existence as a first name.
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- Mar (X-Mar)
1/26/2008, 1:41 PM
I love Thierry and Didier, especially together. I like Tanguy as well [tah(n)-gee], but I don't like the 'tan guy' jokes about it. My fav girls name: Océane
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- Elinor (Elly747)
1/26/2008, 1:23 PM
I love Eugenie, Fabienne, Emmanuelle and Gabrielle. I don't pronounce any of them in a properly French way because it's just not do-able without correcting people all the time. I say yoo-JEAN-ee or yoo-ZHAY-nee for Eugenie, fab-ee-ENN or fab-YEN for Fabienne.

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- xPrincess27x
1/26/2008, 1:16 PM
I really like Anastasie.
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- molly   +1
1/26/2008, 12:10 PM
- Mrs Claire (Miss Claire)
1/26/2008, 1:38 PM
Interesting list!
Alizé, though, is the male form of Alizée.
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- Mrs Claire (Miss Claire)   +1
1/26/2008, 1:37 PM
A few comments for clarity:Esme would be Esmée on a girl, and is hardly used.
Amélie also takes an accent. Eloïse too needs a special character, and Edmée too. And Joséphine, and Léa, and Océane, and Salomé, and Sébastienne (hardly used), Séraphine, Séverine,
Maximilienne is hardly used, so is Verene (Vérène actually).Benoît takes an accent. Fiacre is not used anymore at all. Josué needs an accent. Léopolod too. Loïc has two points. Rémy an accent. Sébastien too.
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- LMS
1/26/2008, 6:48 PM
Umm...I didn't need clarifying...I just can't type the accents with my keyboard and I don't remember the codes to do so. That doesn't mean I don't spell them that way, I just can't type them on the computer that way.It doesn't matter if a name is hardly used, she just asked what our favorite French names are and to my knowledge, even though they aren't used they still retain their French heritage.
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- Melania (melrose452)   +1
1/26/2008, 11:37 AM
French names are my favorites too. Here are some straight for my PNL (all names are searchable):
Odette
Aurore
Josephine
Emmanuelle
Catherine
Geneviève (zhawn-VYEV)
Anouk
Laure (LOR)
Belle
Henriette (awn-re-ET)
Fleur
Vienne
Antoinette
Gabrielle
Claudie (klo-DEE)
Héloïse (el-o-EEZ)
Berenice (beh-reh-NEES)
Eugénie (oo-zhen-EE)
Magali (ma-ga-LEE)
Adrienne
Godelieve (ZHO-de-lyev)
Clarice (kla-REES)
Sébastienne
Olivie (o-lee-VEE)
Colombe
Marguerite
Valentine (val-un-TEEN)
Colette
Cosette
Eve
Marine
NicoletteLoïc (lo-EEK)
Émile (ay-MEEL)
Hugo
Raphael
Guillaume (gee-OM with a hard G as in gate)
Beau
Isidore
Yves (EEV)
Olivier (o-lee-VYAY
Florian
Rémy
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- Mrs Claire (Miss Claire)
1/26/2008, 1:33 PM
I must say, for clarity, that Vienne is not used as a name in France. Also, we spell Bérénice like this, with accents. Clarice we spell Clarisse.Sébastienne and Olivie are hardly used.
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- Saana (Yippal)   +1
1/26/2008, 11:25 AM
Damien, Julien, Joël, Sébastien, Pierre, Adrien, Vincent, Simon, Blaise, Antonin, Louis, Christophe, Rémi / Rémy, Lucien, Olivier, RodolpheCécile, Jeanne, Marie, Amarante, Arianne, Florence, Antoinette, Ninon, Dianne, Angeline, Christelle, Claire, Francine, Valentine, Léa, Geneviève, Gisèle
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- Mrs Claire (Miss Claire)
1/26/2008, 1:31 PM
In French, Dianne only takes one N ;)
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- CN (CSwe)
1/26/2008, 10:55 AM
I tend to like masculine French names more than feminine. Here's my favorites:
Étienne (one of my favorite names. It's in the database as Etienne)
Guillaume
Loïc (in the database as Loic)It really annoys me that the database doesn't have the French names as they are suppose to be spelled. It is quite a difference between the pronouciation of Loïc and Loic...

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- Laurie (guest)
1/26/2008, 10:54 AM
Mireille, Caroline, Genevieve, Camille.My daughter's name is Caroline and although we pronounce it Ca-ro-line I love the French pronounciation Ca-ro-leen.
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- Katja Eidis
1/26/2008, 10:46 AM