What is your favorite French baby girl name?

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*Aurelia - means "golden" (This is my absolute fave but I really like all the others too)
- pronounced or-eh-lee
Clarisse - means "bright shining"
- pronounced clah-reese
Jolie - literally translates into "pretty"
- pronounced jo-lee
Lelia - means "well spoken"
- pronounced lay-lee-uh
Jouelle - not sure what it means but i would guess "jewel"
- pronounced jus (like au jus) - el...Show more

I really like the names Brigitte. I also really like Amelie, Vienne, Charlotte, and Gisele. I think those are all so pretty.


*this is just a comment on what © @ ĩ Ŧ Ļ ў Ŋ said
They said that the French pronounce Genevieve like ZHON-VYAIR-VUH, which doesn't sound very french to me. I'm pretty sure they pronounce it GEN-VEE-EV. And they also said that they pronounce Brigitte like BRI-ZHEET. No, they don't. It's pronounced BREE-GEET. The name Brigitte was given to me by my french teacher 3 1/2 years ago when I first started french class. My teacher lived in Paris and Lyon for several years and knew several Brigitte's, so I think she would know how to pronounce the name and she NEVER pronounced it BRI-ZHEET. Sorry about this little rant here, but I absolutely adore the french language and so when I see that someone simply adds a "Z" sound to a name or word and tries to call it French, it makes me just a tad upset. I just wanted to clarify that*

Hope this helps...Show more

Rosalie= Rose Garden in French...Show more

I LOVE French names! I love both the Australian and the French pronunciation of them too (well, most of them).

Genevieve
Australian - JEN-UH-VEEV
French - ZHON-VYAIR-VUH
Man that was hard to write the pronunciation. I did the best I could lol :P

Brigitte
Australian - BRIDGE-IT
French - BRI-ZHEET

Those are my 2 absolute fave French names :)

Also, Elodie
In Australian it rhymes with Melody, but in French it's pronounced EE-LOH-DEE (the O sound the same as the O in dog)

And Fleur :)



If you want, here's a bit of a fun baby name question:
What would you name siblings with these old-fashioned names? +BQ
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100708062749AA5NeVV&r=w

Could you please vote on my fave baby names:
http://www.babynames.com/Names/namelist_view.php?VNLID=9757726

And could you also please reply to one of these threads:
What’s your opinion on unusual or old-fashioned names?
http://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums/baby-names/137606-what-your-opinion-unusual-old-fashioned-names.html#post2367657
http://www.parentsconnect.com/connect/boards/hot_topics/girls_names/chat_it_up_thread.jhtml?tID=112676

And this is the same question as above (old-fashioned names), on Yahoo! Answers, if you don’t have an account to those websites.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtUTFCZmn9LzAwBqL1DtiLTsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100703224408AAMjUEE

I guess there must be multiple ways to pronounce names, because I heard those pronunciations from a half-French girl who speaks the language. And ZH doesn't make a Z sound, I tried to write the pronunciation the best I could, but it was kinda hard. You know the name Jean-Claude, right? And it's pronounced with a softish G/J-ish sound, right? Well, that's the sound I mean by ZH....Show more

Belle, Cosette, Delphine, Josephine, Leontine, Miette, Sylvie, and Vivienne are my favorites....Show more