I don't know what the average person in
France would think of this today, but in 1939 at least one French woman named her daughter
France, as that was the original birth name of the actress
France Nuyen, who was born in Marseilles to a French mother and Vietnamese father:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638395/bio
P.S. The comments section for the name
France on this site say that
France is quite common in
France as part of the compound name "Marie-France". That was certainly true in the recent past, because if you Google "Marie-France" a great many examples of women with that name come up.
This message was edited 7/3/2009, 5:51 AM