Noah or a Dutch name?

[osaraf]

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?

[titchy]

Jan? Is there an equivalent of Luca or Luke? Pieter? The Dutch equivalent of matthew?

[GetOrfMoiLand]

I like the name Schuyler (pronounced Sky-lar), I had a Dutch friend at school called that, shortened to Sky. It's a lovely name imo.

[bellissima]

Jacob, Jerome, Joachim,

Mathius (and variations thereof)

Luka

Emil (love Emil)

[belgo]

Kobe
Robbe

[belgo]

Jonas

[Scorpette]

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?

[ScaredOfEverything]

Luk, Bram, Bo, Leo

All good dutch names

[ThingOne]

Herman, Wim?

[LouLovesAeroplaneJelly]

Dirk, Bart, Hans, Nikolas,Henk
Do a google search for Dutch names. There are heaps out there

[clemette]

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.

[belgo]

Andries Dries for short is lovely.

[osaraf]

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!

[VAB]

My family consists of:

Pieter
Henk
Wim (Willem)
Lex
Jan
Bastian
Pim

[skihorse]

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.