Need helping naming our girls!

Girl Names
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We’re expecting twin girls February 17th. We love French names so we wanted long, girlie French names (with two middle names). Last name is Chabot.

We like:

Amélie
[name]Angelique[/name]
Aurélie
Dorothée
Élisabeth
Élodie
Geneviève
[name]Isabelle[/name]
[name]Jos[/name]éphine
[name]Juliette[/name]
[name]Lucie[/name]
[name]Marine[/name]
Noémi
Océane
Pénélope
[name]Val[/name]érie

Any other suggestions welcome! [name]Amelie[/name], [name]Elodie[/name], [name]Josephine[/name] and [name]Penelope[/name] are our top contenders for first name.

Amélie Béatrice Geneviève
Élodie [name]Angelique[/name] Océane
[name]Jos[/name]éphine Dorothée Élisabeth
Pénélope [name]Juliette[/name] Noémi

Any other combos? And which two sound best?

Thanks in advance!!!

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I like Geneviève and [name]Jos[/name]éphine for twins. Second choice would be [name]Isabelle[/name] and [name]Juliette[/name]. A lot of your names are three syllables so your combos seems a bit on the long side when using two mn’s. I wonder if they would all fit on all of the forms that have to be filled out during our lifetime. Also, many of your names have the same sound (accent é = ay). I would break it up with a one or two syllable French name. Are there any shorter French names you like. I’ll give some of my faves in my combo suggestions below.

[name]Jos[/name]éphine [name]Lucie[/name] Dorothée
[name]Jos[/name]éphine [name]Estelle[/name] [name]Violette[/name]

Geneviève [name]Mathilde[/name] Amélie
Geneviève [name]Louise[/name] [name]Delphine[/name]

[name]Juliette[/name] [name]Claire[/name] Noémi
[name]Juliette[/name] [name]Sophie[/name] Maëlle

[name]Isabelle[/name] [name]Manon[/name] [name]Sylvie[/name]
[name]Isabelle[/name] [name]Aurore[/name] Béatrice

Your favourite name combos

[name]Jos[/name]éphine [name]Arlette[/name] Véronique
Amélie [name]Fleur[/name] Céleste
Élodie [name]Simone[/name] [name]Marguerite[/name]
Pénélope [name]Justine[/name] [name]Camille[/name]

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My favourites are [name]Elodie[/name] and [name]Isabelle[/name]. I don’t think you should add the accents because it’ll probably just cause confusion among people who don’t speak French.

I really like [name]Elodie[/name] [name]Juliette[/name] [name]Genevieve[/name] and [name]Isabelle[/name] [name]Amelie[/name] [name]Angelique[/name].

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[name]Love[/name] so many of your names! My best friend (who was a lifelong Parisienne) considered many of these when she was pregnant a couple years ago. :slight_smile: [name]Isabelle[/name], [name]Elisabeth[/name] (sorry, I can’t do the accents on my laptop!), [name]Genevieve[/name], [name]Josephine[/name], and [name]Aurelie[/name] are my favorites, but [name]Amelie[/name] and [name]Elodie[/name] are lovely as well.

For twinsets, I really like the idea of:

[name]Isabelle[/name] [name]Lydie[/name] [name]Juliette[/name] and [name]Josephine[/name] [name]Elodie[/name] [name]Fleur[/name]
[name]Elisabeth[/name] [name]Charlotte[/name] [name]Oceane[/name] and [name]Genevieve[/name] Esmee Felicite
[name]Genevieve[/name] [name]Lydie[/name] [name]Corinne[/name] and [name]Aurelie[/name] [name]Odette[/name] [name]Camille[/name]
[name]Genevieve[/name] [name]Elodie[/name] [name]Dorothee[/name] and [name]Josephine[/name] [name]Lucie[/name] [name]Penelope[/name]

[name]Just[/name] a few ideas. :slight_smile: I added a few other French names, just to give a bit more variety for combos, but feel free to mix and match as you like. :slight_smile: Having a best friend who’s 100% French has given me a bit of inside naming knowledge–I noticed they aren’t on your list, but they have been in suggestions–if you’re going to go hardcore French (which is oh-so-delightful! I adore it!), I would make sure I would use names that the French would actually use. [name]Fleur[/name]? Yes. It’s a French word name, but it’s still used over there. [name]Belle[/name] and [name]Claire[/name]? No. My friend finds [name]Bella[/name]/[name]Belle[/name] extremely pretentious since it means “beautiful”. The same thing would apply for names like [name]Soleil[/name], [name]Elle[/name] (meaning “she”), and [name]Jolie[/name] (meaning “pretty”). They work as names here in [name]America[/name] because our naming style is so diverse, but over there it ranges from extremely pretentious/trendy to extremely confusing (we wouldn’t go around naming our daughters “She”, would we? Neither do they). [name]Just[/name] a little tip. :slight_smile:

I don’t know if you want to avoid dated names/want a name to work in modern culture both here and there, but if so, I might scrap [name]Isabelle[/name], [name]Aurelie[/name], and [name]Genevieve[/name]. All three are considered very dated in [name]France[/name]. [name]Juliette[/name] is like a very old-fashioned name over there, just starting to come back (not sure what to equate it to, but I would assume it would be something like [name]Harriet[/name], [name]Mabel[/name], [name]Sybil[/name], or [name]Hazel[/name] over here).

For the most part, though, I really love your list and I think to works very well!

All the best!

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[name]Maeva[/name] [name]Jade[/name] [name]Dorothee[/name] & [name]Elodie[/name] [name]Josephine[/name] [name]Valerie[/name]

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I would like to see little [name]Genevieve[/name] and [name]Josephine[/name] (as a twin!)
[name]Genevieve[/name] [name]Oceane[/name] [name]Lucie[/name]
[name]Josephine[/name] [name]Amelie[/name] [name]Marine[/name]

ps: can’t do accent with my laptop too, sorry!