A lot of the French names I see on the boards, “ette” names and the ones in my signature are considered old people names and are unpopular names for children right now. Here is a list of the top names, trendy, or stylish (Bourgeois/“nameberry”) names in France right now. Since you want to know what would match the image of little girls in Paris right now I will try to divide them between the type of names they are but of course that’s sort of up to personal preference and interpretation:
BCBG/what I consider “nameberry names” and not necessarily “general population” though a lot of them are growing in popularity*= I like
Capucine, Agathe, Berengere*, Brunhilde, Constance, Diane, Eleonore*, Eugenie*, Garance*, Isaure*, Hortense, Penelope, Petronille, Segolene (I love but too political), Tiphaine, Violaine, Athenais (my FAVORITE name!), Philippine
Actual top names being used for 2013 *downmarket imeLots of American and Italian names are big but imo are getting some backlash like the way we dislike Aidan, Madison, etc…
Emma, Jade*, Lola, Chloe, Ines, Lea, Oceane*, Lilou* (imo this is their version of Nevaeh), Manon, Zoe, Maelys* Maelle*, Camille
Clara, Alice, Romane
Variety of Older and some classic namesthese are cut and paste from a French board, *=I like
Ernestine, Alexandrine, Alexine, Amarante, Amaryllis, Ambroisine,Victorine, Anouck, Armande, Athanasie, Auréliane, Auxane*, Baptistine*, Bertille, Cyprille, Blanche, Eliette, Euphrasie, Euphrosine, Florette, Fleurestine, Isandre, Alissandre, Lysandre, Isolde, clothilde, mathilde, germaine, blandine, xaviére*, françoise*, violaine, dorothéa
Sorry this is so long and if there are any repeats, I’m not on my computer so I can’t do accents!