In my quest to find a name for my husband and I to agree on I have noticed that I really enjoy names ending in “ine” to give the een sound.
I really like [name_f]Francine[/name_f] and [name_f]Pauline[/name_f] and even [name_f]Eileen[/name_f]. (Although I know people say it sounds dated - and not in the good vintage way)
I was just wondering if anyone had any favorites that they would like to share? I keep hoping some name is going to magically jump out at me. Hah. So far no luck.
I like a lot of -ine names too (although mostly with the rhymes-with-mine pronunciations.) [name_f]My[/name_f] favorites right now are [name_f]Ondine[/name_f] and [name_f]Marceline[/name_f].
Celandine
[name_f]Evangeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Angeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Seraphine[/name_f]
[name_f]Severine[/name_f]
[name_f]Fantine[/name_f]
[name_f]Faustine[/name_f]
[name_f]Olivine[/name_f]
Blandine
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Geraldine[/name_f]
[name_f]Pomeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Ondine[/name_f]/[name_f]Undine[/name_f]
[name_f]Catherine[/name_f]
[name_u]Valentine[/name_u]
[name_f]Clementine[/name_f] (mostly pronounced like in the song, but the -een ending is just as legit).
Celandine
Aventine (one of the hills of Ancient [name_m]Rome[/name_m]-- I love how similar it sounds to Adventure)
Ondeline (obscure combination of [name_f]Ondine[/name_f] and Ombeline)
[name_f]Opaline[/name_f]
[name_f]Perline[/name_f]/[name_f]Pearline[/name_f]
Opheline (a bit too close to ‘orphan’ for me)
[name_f]Lucine[/name_f]
Ambrine
Ysaline
[name_f]Pascaline[/name_f]
Audeline
[name_f]Zoeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Lucine[/name_f] is actually loo-see-neh, so it doesn’t have the “-een”/"-ine" sound.
I think they’ve all been mentioned but my favorites are [name_f]Josephine[/name_f], [name_f]Evangeline[/name_f], [name_f]Alexandrine[/name_f], [name_f]Aveline[/name_f], [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f], and [name_f]Caroline[/name_f].
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] and [name_f]Catherine[/name_f] are my favorites. I don’t pronounce them with the same ending (LEEN vs. rin), but they’re both on my short list and I adore them! I also love [name_f]Adeline[/name_f] (add-eh-line) and [name_f]Madeleine[/name_f] (mad-eh-len), but now I’m thinking you’re more after the “een” sound than the literal “ine” ending? Although in [name_m]French[/name_m], [name_f]Catherine[/name_f] is said almost like kah-treen… Others I really like:
[name_f]Magdalene[/name_f]
[name_f]Evangeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Marine[/name_f] (in a gpish sort of way. I feel like it wouldn’t be as usable in the US as it would be in [name_f]France[/name_f]…)
Angelien (an intriguing Dutch name I came across yesterday! I’m loving all these strange and wonderful international names lately, so Angelien intrigues me, but there’s also the more simple [name_f]Angeline[/name_f]…)
[name_f]Gwendoline[/name_f]
[name_f]Pomeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Delphine[/name_f]
[name_f]Sixtine[/name_f]/[name_f]Sistine[/name_f] (essentially said the same–in [name_m]French[/name_m], the “K” part of the “X” in [name_f]Sixtine[/name_f] is pretty much silent)
Ysaline (my best friend named her younger daughter this, nn Ysa. I thought it was so unusual and cool. If [name_f]Isabelle[/name_f] wasn’t my top girls’ name, I probably would have considered this even more seriously)
Racheline (not sure how legitimate it is, but I’ve long loved [name_f]Rachel[/name_f], and I loved this embellishment! I came across it on a list of names years ago. I say it ray-chel-leen)
[name_f]Katrien[/name_f] (came across this a year or two ago on here–someone was considering using it. At the time, it looked very [name_m]French[/name_m] (what was I thinking?!), so I said it how I assume it would have been said in [name_m]French[/name_m], but it’s actually Dutch and said kah-TREEN. I think it’s lovely. I still like my mispronounced “[name_m]French[/name_m]” prn better, though, haha.)
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] is definitely my favorite, though! Followed by [name_f]Catherine[/name_f] (and [name_f]Madeleine[/name_f] and [name_f]Adeline[/name_f]!).
I like names with the ine pronunciation as well. ([name_f]Adeline[/name_f]) but I just find a lot of people have different ways to say them so I like the more familiar ones.