Francesca?

[pgwithnumber3]

Hum de hum, it is me again - just want to test this one out.

Love Francesca, love Cesca for a younger girl and think Frankie is cute when you are a teenager.

Goes well with our surname and DD1 and DD2's names.

Mumsnet general opinion... ?

[pgwithnumber3]

Yes Lulumama, I did tell you we were definitely going for Louisa Hope but I may have changed my mind (or DH has )!

[Janni]

I've always loved it, but I think I'll be in the minority.

[JackieNo]

I like it a lot.

[pgwithnumber3]

I agree Janni. I think it is a pretty name though, can't see what is wrong with it!

[lilolilmanchester]

I know a grown up Francesca and a little girl called Francesca, works well for both little girls and grown up IMO. If it was my name, I'd prefer Frankie as a grown up, not sure about Cesca, but love the long name and no doubt your DD would make her own decision on the shortened version eventually.

[pgwithnumber3]

2 for it so far...

[RubySlippers]

LOVE it

on my girl list as a middle name should we ever have a DD

[pgwithnumber3]

Yes, I would use the whole name but somewhere along the line it gets shortened. Really don't like Fran or Franny either. (sorry to any Frans on Mumsnet!)

[slightlybonkers]

francesca is lovely franny is dreadful

[LittlePushka]

Oh I am sorry pg with 3, but I think it is an awful name, it does not trip off the tongue easily and I agree wih sleepy cat that the diminutive forms are not great either!

[frazzledoldbag34]

I really like it.
And Frankie, Chessie etc are lovely too.
Might have to put it on my list for the next one....

[Elkat]

Agree with the others. I love Francesa and had it on my list, but ruled it out because I didn't like Fran as a nn, and it would be just my luck that DD would choose that as her preferred nn. But if you can live with all the potential nicknames, then it is a lovely name.

[TheNaughtiestGirlIsaMonitor]

I like Frankie for a boy. REally love that. But not as very keen on Francesca for a girl. Fran, Fanny, Cheska. NO. It's not awful though, I just wouldn't choose it myself.

[Minniethemoocher]

Not my choice, they will always be called Fran, which sounds really old fashioned and horrible.

Sorry!

[CantSleepWontSleep]

I really like it. Was on my list, but had to remove it as I wanted to shorten it to Frankie but dh wanted to shorten it to Fran, and neither of us liked the other!

[UpSinceCrapOClock]

Love Francesca. I think it's one of those names that people know, but that there won't be heaps of.

I once knew a Francesca who had Effie as a nn, which I also like.

[Heated]

Love it

[pgwithnumber3]

I disagree Minnie with a Francesca being called Fran. I only think you end up being called Fran if you let people and I WOULD NOT let people call my baby Fran!

[3andnomore]

Love Francesca!

[WendyWeber]

I have a Frances, which is a lovely grown-up sort of name IMO & I never heard of a Frances who wasn't a strong & independent kind of woman.

Mine was Frannie (or sometimes Frannie-Annie) as a little girl, & is Fran in her 20s (but still sometimes Frannie-Annie ) - she was never a Frankie, although we know a younger Frances who is.

[WendyWeber]

Why do you all dislike Fran or Franny so much?

[noonki]

beautiful name