Noah or a Dutch name?
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We both like Noah but my Fiancee is Dutch and we can't think of any Dutch names we both like, and that I can pronounce! Any suggestions?
Lads in my office:
Henk
Daniel
Ronald
Roland
Frits
Eric
Ron
Arjan
Wiel
Marc
Hans
Terence
Marco
Ar thur
Frank
Gertjan
Dick
Andre
Peter
Nick
Nothing too weird there.
Names they've called their kids:
Joas
Johan
Sil
Jaden
Kevin
So quite a change there in generation.
My family consists of:
Pieter
Henk
Wim (Willem)
Lex
Jan
Bastian
Pim
Hi,
Thanks for all your suggestions! Some good ones there. My Fiance's middle name is Cornelius. I still really like Noah so maybe a Dutch middle name is a good compromise. I live in France so you have to have a name ready at the time of birth, can't wait a while to see what suits!
Andries Dries for short is lovely.
I like Daniel (same name in Dutch and English; three of my Dutch cousins are called this, as is my English born brother).
Or Lukas.
Dirk, Bart, Hans, Nikolas,Henk
Do a google search for Dutch names. There are heaps out there
Herman, Wim?
Luk, Bram, Bo, Leo
All good dutch names

My brother lives in Holland and has a (Dutch) friend called Noah, so I think that would work fine. The stress is on the second syllable (No-AH), not the first like in English (NO-ah). All the rest of his Dutch friends have English names - Jonathan, Michael, Richard, etc. I like Cornelius, which is more common over there, but I realise it might be a bit too 'out there' for some. Rudy is a very popular Dutch name, but not so common over here. Matthijs (Ma-TICE) is nice and could be shortened to Matt or Matty and I agree with GOML that Schuyler is a lovely name - it's on my longlist if I was to have a DS. Why not go for Noah and have a more obviously Dutch name as a MN?
Jonas