What is your favourite French girl's name?

I love French names and one of my favourites is [name]Genevieve[/name]. Tell me do you have a favourite French name, and is it on your top ten list?

[name]Eulalie[/name] I guess :slight_smile:

I also love [name]Manon[/name]. ^^

[name]Hi[/name], [name]Rollo[/name]! [name]Genevieve[/name] is my favorite French name, too, and it’s definitely in my Top 10! :slight_smile:

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I love [name]Vivienne[/name]! I also like [name]Lisette[/name] as well.

[name]Anais[/name] or [name]Fleur[/name]

[name]Mireille[/name] — which is pron. Me-[name]RAY[/name]-yuh. People always confuse it for [name]Mirielle[/name] (MEER-ee-el), but it’s not the same.

I used to hate [name]Genevieve[/name], but I’m finding myself growing more fond of it now. Usually I prefer the native pron., but I do like the American pron. of [name]Genevieve[/name] better than the French Zhon-vee-ev. Oh well.

Another one is the Old French [name]Ghislaine[/name], which no one uses anymore. The first syllable Ghis- is pron. like [name]Giselle[/name]. GIS-len.

[name]Love[/name] the name [name]Maelle[/name] ([name]May[/name]-elle), also the name (or nn) Miette!

Mines is [name]Gaelle[/name], [name]Minuet[/name] and [name]Camille[/name] and [name]Amelie[/name].

[name]Caroline[/name], [name]Charlotte[/name] and [name]Claire[/name] are my favorites, and are on my top 10 list.
I also like [name]Juliette[/name] and [name]Vivienne[/name].

My favourite is probably [name]Camille[/name], I also love [name]Genevieve[/name], [name]Charlotte[/name], [name]Chantal[/name] and [name]Leonie[/name]

  • [name]Elena[/name] :slight_smile:

I love [name]Cosette[/name]!

My list seems to be filling up with French names. It’s not just that there are a lot of French names I like, but that most of them are uncommon in English-speaking areas. [name]Don[/name]'t know the [name]Quebec[/name] statistics, but those probably don’t matter in [name]Alberta[/name].

I previously posted this list:
[name]Esme[/name], [name]Estelle[/name], [name]Yvette[/name], [name]Odette[/name], Miette, [name]Melusine[/name], Celandine, Cabrienne, [name]Emmeline[/name], [name]Alouette[/name], [name]Mariette[/name], [name]Fleur[/name], Ysanne, Pommeline

I’d definitely use [name]Esme[/name] first; it has the bonus of being a dual-language name from two languages that produce many names I love (French and Persian).

Others I’ll add: [name]Anais[/name], [name]Cerise[/name], [name]Rosette[/name], [name]Aveline[/name], [name]Cosette[/name], [name]Perrine[/name]. [name]Even[/name], I suppose, the more familiar [name]Camille[/name] and [name]Colette[/name].

Okay, maybe the French don’t use this, but it’s a French place name, so I think it goes here:
[name]Aquitaine[/name]

Ok, I love all the names people have suggested so far, but I just wanted to add these. Sorry for repeats and sorry for any mistakes (I’m not French, I just love French names)! :slight_smile:

[name]Corrine[/name]
[name]Colette[/name]
[name]Sylvie[/name]
[name]Francine[/name] (dated cool!)
[name]Esme[/name]
[name]Delphine[/name]
[name]Aurelie[/name]
[name]Simone[/name]
[name]Marie[/name] (a bit plain but I like it)
[name]Noelle[/name]
[name]Juliette[/name]
[name]Sabine[/name]
[name]Therese[/name]
[name]Elise[/name]
[name]Mathilde[/name]
[name]Oceane[/name] (love the ocean connection)

Many French names have emphasis on the last syllable, which is what makes them such great MNs–they go with everything! For a boy, Francois has emphasis on the second syllable, so it could easily become the “[name]Marie[/name]” of boys’ MNs…

[name]Delphine[/name] [name]Celeste[/name] is definitely in my top 10 (top 3 actually!). [name]Apolline[/name] is on the long list, but inching towards my top 10. I also love [name]Eulalie[/name], [name]Anouk[/name], and [name]Sabine[/name].

[name]Sylvie[/name].

[name]Mireille[/name], [name]Noelle[/name], [name]Angelique[/name], [name]Vivienne[/name], [name]Cherie[/name], [name]Elise[/name], [name]Genevieve[/name], [name]Jessamine[/name], [name]Lisette[/name]

[name]Jessamine[/name] is definitely in my top ten. [name]Genevieve[/name] and [name]Noelle[/name] may also make it as well.

For the others, I like different forms of a lot of them: I prefer [name]Vivianna[/name] to [name]Vivienne[/name], [name]Mirielle[/name] (different pronunciation) to [name]Mireille[/name], and [name]Angelica[/name] to [name]Angelique[/name].

[name]Elise[/name] would be in my top ten for middle names.

[name]Giselle[/name] is definitely my favorite.
I love [name]Antoinette[/name] but dont know if I would name a girl this…maybe…

I love Ma”lys pronounced MAH-eh-liss!

Many French names have emphasis on the last syllable, which is what makes them such great MNs–they go with everything!
I think you hit on a large part of why I like them, period. I often wish many English names (and far more words that aren’t names) were pronounced with the stress on the second syllable, or sometimes on the third if they have a third.

I love French names!
My favourite has to be [name]Genevieve[/name] but I also love [name]Juliette[/name], [name]Delphine[/name], [name]Maelle[/name], [name]Adele[/name], [name]Cecile[/name], [name]Camille[/name] and lots of others!