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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?
16 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
*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 - CarissaBaker♥Lv 41 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 © @ Ä© Ŧ Ä» Ñ Å 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:) - ♥ Ninja Robot ♥Lv 71 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.
- ◊ мışş кяış ◊Lv 71 decade ago
Genevieve
I pronounce it the English way though, Jen ah veev.
The French pronunciation is zhawn-vee-ev.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Colette
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Vivienne,Amelie and Sophie.