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My hubby is icelandic, and we have a really boring British surname. We have agreed to give our kids icelandic names so that they arn't called John Smith.

Being a school teacher I have been a little grumpy and ruled out any names that I can't pronounce correctlty by reading them and any with non English characters (ð etc)

We have a son called Ragnar and a yellow bump, pretty set on Lilja for a girl, but would love some suggestions for boys (and girls too), been thinking about Ólafur for a boy but if we shorten the names our boys would be raggi and oli (rags and holes) am I over thinking this???

Magnus?
Erik?
Freya?
Erika?
Inga/Ingrid?

(I know three scottish females called Ola). Wouldn't that be a more obvious abbreviation of Olafur? (trying to be helpful emoticon).

FWIW, I do think you're overthinking the raggy/holey thing

Loki (norse god of mischief) for boy
Mia for girl

Halldor?

Thor , Eric, Astrid, Ingrid,

Helgi or Hedda

Agree with chocoluvva about overthinking raggy/holey thing

Erik or Magnus for boys would work very well in English if you are worried about pronunciation issues. I like both names very much. Freyja for a girl

In fact, Magnus is on my shortlist for my due-in-a-week yellow bump (we're Scottish) if it's a boy.

Halla, or there was a thread a while back about the name Lillimor (not totally sure of spelling) for a girl, which is apparently Norse in origin and verey lovely
Arne

I like Aksel and Viggo for a boy. Svandis for a girl.

Astrid was on our list for DD2, lovely name - I went to school with an Icelandic girl called Stanen, which I always thought was very pretty.

When I was at Uni I knew a girl named Smilla (like the book 'miss smilla's feeling for snow') and she was always called Smile by everyone - lovely! I also love Erika or Ingrid - and is Pippi (Longstocking) scandinavian?

Can only think boys, either Soren or Lars.

Lars and Viggo are great. Too bad I had no excuse to use such names as I'm from nowhere near Scandinavia...

Linnea for a girl

I have an Eirik.

I think Viktor is a great name as well.

have you seen this site, I love it geek www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Main_Page

I also think you're overthinking Raggi and Oli

Einar? Stefan? Sindri?
I've taught a Lars and Nils (British but some Scandi heritage).

Inga? I like Lilja a lot.

Thorkell

Hildur
Bjork!
Larus
Sindri
Tryggvi
Vigdis

My (Swedish) uncle is named Nils, and my female relatives are Dagmar, Helga, Ingrid and Heike.

Ferdinand, shortened to Feddi - very nice.

Stian

Britt-Helena

My dd's godfather is Icelandic, his name is Ingvar (which I love) his kids are called Christian (spelt Islandic way which I can't remember!) Katerina and Johannes (Yo-hannes) they live in the US so all the names have worked in an English speaking context. Ingvar is still my favorite - awesome name and awesome bloke!

Anders, Lars, Thor are 3 I like (and ds is one of them!)

DS2 is Magnus, people always comment on it and it never gets shortened. It suits him perfectly...I love your choice of names OP, love Lilja!

Tuuli for a girl (Too Lee)

Lars for a boy