Francis or Frances for a girl (middle name)?

VesperLove · June 2015

So, DH and I have decided on our name should we have a girl (find out in two weeks). We would name her Audrey Francis. Audrey was his grandmother's name and Francis was my grandmother's middle name.

However, I'm wondering if Francis or Frances is the more appropriate feminine spelling? My gma spelled it with an 'i' but I'm not opposed to changing it if Frances is the more commonly used feminine spelling. I've looked online and have seem both marked as feminine.

I don't know enough about this stuff to know if one is more standard than the other or if this is one of those names that doesn't actually matter.

Any help would be appreciated!

wassuphoes · June 2015

Frances is the feminine spelling, and Francis is the masculine spelling.

I personally find honor names to still be honor names even if the spelling is changed. So I would do Frances, but if you feel Francis is more...honoring (words are hard today) stick with Francis.

Audrey Frances/Francis is a lovely name.

magsugar13 · June 2015

Frances

Sassenach1743 · June 2015

Everything @wassuphoes said.

Frances would be my preference. Love Audrey Frances!

VesperLove · June 2015

Thanks, ladies. That's what I thought too and then saw one random name website that had Francis marked as mn and fn and it got me confused! I'm totally fine changing the spelling to an 'e' if that's the feminine version. Very helpful!

MixedBerries88 · June 2015

Lovely name! You can have a spelling pass if it's honoring a loved one but if you change the spelling to the correct female spelling, it'll still be very special!

VesperLove · June 2015

Let's just hope this one is a girl since we are COMPLETELY stuck on boy names! This is our first and we really have no preference for boy or girl at all (we would adore having both!) so if we're simply talking ease of naming, pretty please girl, girl, girl!

MixedBerries88 · June 2015

kyleneum13 said:
Let's just hope this one is a girl since we are COMPLETELY stuck on boy names! This is our first and we really have no preference for boy or girl at all (we would adore having both!) so if we're simply talking ease of naming, pretty please girl, girl, girl!

Yup, we have the same problem in reverse gender. We're going to be ttc very soon and our boy name is set. We keep bouncing between 3 girl names and I know if we have a girl first it's going to be crazytown picking the final name.