DH is Armenian, I am Norwegian

Sunshine is mine

DH is half Armenian and I am Norwegian. I was wondering if any of you might suggest some names (boy or girl) that might be cute and reflect our heritages that are not too ethnic sounding...

rookiemom9

Whatever you choose, sounds like your baby is going to be GORGEOUS! I'm not familiar with either ethnicity though. There was a post earlier that suggested a website for ethnic-specific names.

noodles922

My FI is danish and we decided to use a danish name for our LO. Nordicnames.de has a nice list of names common to the scandinavian countries and you can separate them out by country and gender. We are going with Maren Elisabet which reflects his culture but isn't too out there

anna7602

Does your DH have an Armenian last name? Because if so, I probably wouldn't go looking for an Armenian first name since the last names are so distinctive. In addition, I don't know many Armenian first names that are not "too ethnic sounding," per your criteria.

You might just want to focus on pan-European names, like Alex, Anna, Sofia, etc.

SarahPLiz

While looking up Armenian names, the boy names that stood out to me were Armen and Ari, and the girl one I likes was Zabel (isabel). 

 

Norwegian names I like include

Frans, Filip, Emil, Fredrik, Hugo and Jonas

Anja, Astrid, and Carina

 

onelittlemonkey

Well, I don't know much about Armenian names but I would say I'm pretty much an expert in Norwegian names  Two girl names I saw that were Armenian: Lala and Marine.  Two names used in Norway that come to mind are Laila, Marina, Maren- as somebody else suggested.  We were going to use Maren as a middle name for DS2 had he been a girl.  Laila is starting to become someone popular in the US, but I don't know how popular.

A girl (I think it's used for boys, too?) Armenian name that I like is Sevan, with emphasis being on the second syllable, and there's also the Norwegian name Severin/Sevrin (boy, but I know a girl with this name, too).

The best actual matches I think you will find between Norwegian and Armanian names are:

 Girl: Annika (Norway), Ani, Ankine (Armenia)

Marina (N), Marine (A), Marem (A), Maren (N), Mari (A), Marta (both)

Elise (both) but probably pronounced as Elisa, could also do Elsa

Lili (A), Lillia (Scandinavian) 

Lala (A), Laila (N) 

 Boy:  Arakel (A), Aksel (N)

Emin (A), Emil (N)

Markar (A), Markus (N) 

 You might want to use a name that's commonly used in Norway, but found elsewhere in Europe: 

 Boys: Matthias, Elias, Otto, Aksel, Andreas, Oscar, Emil, Felix, Henrik, Johan, Kai, Linus, Lukas, Markus

Girls: Elsa, Brigitta, Camilla, Cecilie, Eleonora, Elise, Emilia, Erika, Ester, Eva, Gudrun, Hanna, Helena, Ida, Johanna, Karin, Karina, Karolina, Katja, Klara, Lea, Lena, Maja, Margareta, Mari, Marta, Martina, Martine, Petra, Mattea, Tea, Thea, Vera

Good luck!

  

onelittlemonkey

And I second the suggestion for nordicnames.de!

Sunshine is mine

onelittlemonkey:

Well, I don't know much about Armenian names but I would say I'm pretty much an expert in Norwegian names  Two girl names I saw that were Armenian: Lala and Marine.  Two names used in Norway that come to mind are Laila, Marina, Maren- as somebody else suggested.  We were going to use Maren as a middle name for DS2 had he been a girl.  Laila is starting to become someone popular in the US, but I don't know how popular.

A girl (I think it's used for boys, too?) Armenian name that I like is Sevan, with emphasis being on the second syllable, and there's also the Norwegian name Severin/Sevrin (boy, but I know a girl with this name, too).

The best actual matches I think you will find between Norwegian and Armanian names are:

 Girl: Annika (Norway), Ani, Ankine (Armenia)

Marina (N), Marine (A), Marem (A), Maren (N), Mari (A), Marta (both)

Elise (both) but probably pronounced as Elisa, could also do Elsa

Lili (A), Lillia (Scandinavian) 

Lala (A), Laila (N) 

 Boy:  Arakel (A), Aksel (N)

Emin (A), Emil (N)

Markar (A), Markus (N) 

 You might want to use a name that's commonly used in Norway, but found elsewhere in Europe: 

 Boys: Matthias, Elias, Otto, Aksel, Andreas, Oscar, Emil, Felix, Henrik, Johan, Kai, Linus, Lukas, Markus

Girls: Elsa, Brigitta, Camilla, Cecilie, Eleonora, Elise, Emilia, Erika, Ester, Eva, Gudrun, Hanna, Helena, Ida, Johanna, Karin, Karina, Karolina, Katja, Klara, Lea, Lena, Maja, Margareta, Mari, Marta, Martina, Martine, Petra, Mattea, Tea, Thea, Vera

Good luck!

  

wow this is great

onelittlemonkey

Hope it is helpful!  It's nice to see that you're trying to honor both heritages- we seem to have similar naming philosophies- and I think it will be very possible for you to find something you're happy with.  We also waited until delivery to find out the sex of our children and I'm so happy we did- plus, you get to have fun pick out both boy and girl names!  

 Another thing to look at would be meanings of names.  For instance, my second son's name is Lochlan because my husband is Irish/Scottish and I'm Norwegian and the meaning of Lochlan/Lachlan is a reference to Norway: "land of the lakes (fjords)", so it was a nice way to tie in both heritages.