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Bella
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Bella asked in Pregnancy & ParentingBaby Names · 1 decade ago

What is your favorite French baby girl name?

I use to like Madeline, but not anymore. For some reason, it does nothing for me. Any ideas?

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  • 1 decade ago
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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

    Source(s): http://www.babynology.com/french-girlnames-a0.html Plus 3 years of french
  • 1 decade ago

    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

    Source(s): my brainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn:)
  • 1 decade ago

    Rosalie= Rose Garden in French

  • 1 decade ago

    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=201007...

    Could you please vote on my fave baby names:

    http://www.babynames.com/Names/namelist_view.php?V...

    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/137...

    http://www.parentsconnect.com/connect/boards/hot_t...

    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=AtUTF...

    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.

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  • 1 decade ago

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

  • Genevieve

    I pronounce it the English way though, Jen ah veev.

    The French pronunciation is zhawn-vee-ev.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Colette

  • 1 decade ago

    Amelie -like the french movie!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Vivienne,Amelie and Sophie.

  • 1 decade ago

    Elise

    Isabelle

    Genevieve

    Renee

    Francine

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