DH and I are hoping to expand our family soon, and have been talking names. Our son is Matthias Hans, and there aren't many other similarly strong, ethnic names we really like. It feels wrong to name our other hoped for children American names.
Some names we have thrown out are Andreas and Heinrich, with MN after his father, Seppel.
For a girl we have really only discussed Lisette.
If we were to use American names, we like Vincent or Michael, and Robin for a girl, paired with German MNs.
Have you considered Conrad? I love Henrik but I think that probably is the same line as Heinrich. I also like Frederick and know a boy from Germany named Clemens who has a brother Pascal and sister Regina. I also really like Heidi for a girl.
@leighry Conrad is on our radar, it just doesn't feel like the One.
I like Frederick, but DH brother was dating a Regina when he lived in Switzerland when he came home to visit and met his wife, so its a weird bitter thing and we aren't allowed to talk about her
Is Heidi too popular compared to Matthias? It is a sweet name. I should have included we have an extremely recognizable, common German last name and want to avoid there being 1000 already.
What about Hildegard? I have some friends who named their daughter this, nn Hilde, and I just love it. (They call her wildebeest with an H when she's cranky.) They also have a super German last name.
Leisl, Louisa, Heidi (I like, but is common enough in my area to have met several. I would say it's uncommon enough that a kid would probably not have another in their class).
Love Heidi. I don't actually know a single Heidi young or old and in all the name boards that I have been looking at only once or twice have I even seen it suggested or mentioned. I don't think it's common at all in my opinion.
How about Waldemar Jonas Elias Florian Sebastian Thorsten Ludwig Aschwin
I'm not a big fan of Heidi. It just screams Alps to me. I like Lisette, you could use Liesl as a nn. Hannelore Inger Gisela Franziska Armgard Adelheid Hedwig
My DS is Dietrich (though I see that's out for you!) MN is Alastair (Anglicized version of Alistair).
DS #2 will have the middle name Eberhard (I like it for a first name, but it isn't pronounced phonetically here in the US so that would create too many complications.)
Heinrich or Henrik are great!
Suggesting: Johannes (I love this but can't get DH on board - as a classical musician he refuses to name any child after a musician.) Friedrich Alaric
I also love previous suggestions of Ludwig Sebastian Wilhelm
but there is always that obnoxious pronounciation issue of the Ws or Js in German names. I have not looked into girl names at all, so I'm no help there!
@Bringmemylongswordho is Adrian actually German though? DH cousin is Adrian pronounced Ah-dree-ahn, nn Ah-dee, but I just don't believe him. And nobody would ever assume that pronunciation with that spelling.
@Bringmemylongswordho is Adrian actually German though? DH cousin is Adrian pronounced Ah-dree-ahn, nn Ah-dee, but I just don't believe him. And nobody would ever assume that pronunciation with that spelling.
Behind the name says it is. It looks like it's one of those everyone uses it names. Btn does say the German is pronounced like your DHs cousin.
But yes, the pronunciation would be an issue most likely.
Roland Friedrich (DS has one in his class - goes by Fritz) Wilhelm Manfred (Manni) Alexander I love Andreas Christian Torsten Michael My favourite ever is Maximilian
Katja Beate Marina Anna Sabine Johanne Birgit Gretchen Franka Petra Nina I love Heidi!
@Bringmemylongswordho is Adrian actually German though? DH cousin is Adrian pronounced Ah-dree-ahn, nn Ah-dee, but I just don't believe him. And nobody would ever assume that pronunciation with that spelling.
Behind the name says it is. It looks like it's one of those everyone uses it names. Btn does say the German is pronounced like your DHs cousin.
But yes, the pronunciation would be an issue most likely.
I will let him know he is right and I stand corrected!
Anton Viggo Vladimir (I guess more Russian but I love it) Sven Brock Broderick Lars Ulrich Ville
See this is why I love this board. People dig deeeep to help. I need to save this link for when we actually have a fetus to name. Everything seems to change when its a real person.
So many good suggestions. I was going to say Marina. Really like that name. Hubbys german cousins are Hans and Heidi... Only ones to ad (unless I missed it) is Anders and Luca.. Swiss? Swissish? Haha... maybe not?
My husband has a lot of german in him and our last name is 100% german. We went with Roman for DS as it has German usage and we felt it complimented our german last name.
So many good suggestions. I was going to say Marina. Really like that name. Hubbys german cousins are Hans and Heidi... Only ones to ad (unless I missed it) is Anders and Luca.. Swiss? Swissish? Haha... maybe not?
Re: German/Swiss Sibset suggestion
I like Frederick, but DH brother was dating a Regina when he lived in Switzerland when he came home to visit and met his wife, so its a weird bitter thing and we aren't allowed to talk about her
Is Heidi too popular compared to Matthias? It is a sweet name. I should have included we have an extremely recognizable, common German last name and want to avoid there being 1000 already.
I also like Ada, Hilda, and Adelaide (although I think true Germanic spelling has an h in there somewhere). We almost used that for daughter #2.
Dirk or Dierks is a guilty pleasure name for me.
Also I like Johan, Gunner, and Gerard.
Leisl, Louisa, Heidi (I like, but is common enough in my area to have met several. I would say it's uncommon enough that a kid would probably not have another in their class).
other girl names.....Gretel, Liesal?
Hans is too similar for comfort to Johann or Hansel.
Louisa doesn't scream German to me, Gunner seems trendy with the other gun names.
DH has vetoed Liesel because of nicknames, and I think naming a child Otto, Frederick or Hildegard opens them up to a tough childhood.
@leighry if you like Dierks, you may like Dietrich/Dieter which have been vetoed for me but are pretty awesome.
Thank you for all the food for thought!
Waldemar
Jonas
Elias
Florian
Sebastian
Thorsten
Ludwig
Aschwin
I'm not a big fan of Heidi. It just screams Alps to me. I like Lisette, you could use Liesl as a nn.
Hannelore
Inger
Gisela
Franziska
Armgard
Adelheid
Hedwig
Suggest
Adrian
Bertram
Emmerich
Florian
Oswald
Reinhard
Roland
Walter
Wilhem
Wilhelmina
Valerie
Tatiana
Sabrina
Renata
Nicola
Leona
Lucinda
Isolde
Ingrid
Hannelore
Gretchen
Dorothea
Cornelia
Claudia
Beatrix
Ariane
Aloisia
Alwina
.....
Elvira
....
MN is Alastair (Anglicized version of Alistair).
DS #2 will have the middle name Eberhard (I like it for a first name, but it isn't pronounced phonetically here in the US so that would create too many complications.)
Heinrich or Henrik are great!
Suggesting:
Johannes (I love this but can't get DH on board - as a classical musician he refuses to name any child after a musician.)
Friedrich
Alaric
I also love previous suggestions of
Ludwig
Sebastian
Wilhelm
but there is always that obnoxious pronounciation issue of the Ws or Js in German names.
I have not looked into girl names at all, so I'm no help there!
@Bringmemylongswordho is Adrian actually German though? DH cousin is Adrian pronounced Ah-dree-ahn, nn Ah-dee, but I just don't believe him. And nobody would ever assume that pronunciation with that spelling.
But yes, the pronunciation would be an issue most likely.
Friedrich (DS has one in his class - goes by Fritz)
Wilhelm
Manfred (Manni)
Alexander
I love Andreas
Christian
Torsten
Michael
My favourite ever is Maximilian
Katja
Beate
Marina
Anna
Sabine
Johanne
Birgit
Gretchen
Franka
Petra
Nina
I love Heidi!
Viggo
Vladimir (I guess more Russian but I love it)
Sven
Brock
Broderick
Lars
Ulrich
Ville
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