Cool German girls' names?

[CruCru]

Hi all

I am pretty fixed on wanting to call our DD Claudia but wondered if I should consider any other names. I seem to like fairly "Germanic" or Scandinavian names. I really like Ingrid but DH hates it and Astrid is a bit too popular where I live.

[Rhubarbgarden]

Inge
Helga

[BeCool]

Petra
Birgitte

Astrid is fab.

[DanceLikeJohnTravoltaNow]

Hannelore, or Hanna for short.

[Caip]

Just been through a German friend's fb f to get the below

Sabine
Andrea
Katrina
Vera
Heike
Sibylle
Ramona
Dana
Aliens
Anja
Brigitte
Gabi
Silvi
Anneka
Birgit
Magdalena
Silke
Corina

[Caip]

Haha! Aliens is meant to say Alena!

[7to25]

Noemi

[CruCru]

Awesome, thanks. Love Petra but DS's middle name is Peter.

Also love Hannah but there is already one in the family.

[maja00]

Leni
Elsa
Greta
Johanna

[CruCru]

Love Greta too.

[mummaemma]

Hanna/Hana
Leoni/Leonie
Amelie
Nele/Nelee
Luisa/Louisa
Clara/Klara
Alina
Melina
Ida
Finja/Finnja
Lotta/Lotte
Greta
Mathilda/Matilda/Mathilde
Frida/Frieda
Helena
Heidi
Marta
Katharina
Annika
Elisa/Elsa
Lea / Leah
Sofia / Sophia
Anna
Lena
Leonie / Leoni
Lina
Johanna
Lara
Maja / Maya
Clara / Klara

[Nellelephant]

Stefanie, Dana and Francesca are some German friends of ours. I like Sabine.

[BikeRunSki]

Ursula
Karin
Katinka

[MrsCliveStanden]

Claudia and Astrid are both great names. Frieda already mentioned is lovely. Kendra?

[DanceLikeJohnTravoltaNow]

I like Sabine too, its a lovely name. What about Katja, is that German?

[Rhubarbgarden]

Caip you laugh but Alien is an actual Dutch name, pronounced 'Alleen'. Not one that travels well.

[LifeIsNow]

Annika

[NapaCab]

Good German/Scandinavian names based on Germans I know and like are:

Silke
Solveig
Freya

Bad German names to be avoided like the plague IMHO:

Wiebbke
Meike
Frauke
Anke

Bleurgh...

[CecyHall]

Sabine was the name of every girl in my German textbooks at school. For that reason I always assumed it was quite a common, neutral name kind of like Jane or Sarah or something. That puts me off but that's just me (and I might be entirely wrong!)

[Gobbolinothewitchscat]

Anneliese - German

Elin - Scandinavian

Malin - Scandinavian

[MoreThanWords]

Not German, but:

Mette (pr. Medda)
Mariska
Trine

[ComtesseDeFrouFrou]

I have German friends called Johanna (yo-hanna) and Marlene (mar-len-uh, but she has to put up with mar-lean a lot)

[CruCru]

See I rather like Anke but DH won't.

[telsa]

Kirsten
Kerstin
Anja
Beate
Pia
Lieselotte
Zara
Leni (Marlene)
Gertrud
Brunhilde
Wilhelmina
Trauthilde

[Ireallymustbemad]

I know a beautiful Anya which you could also spell Anja.

[nurseneedshelp]

Claudia is a beautiful name!

I work with a German Doctor called Elke (pronounced "Elcar" which I quite like too?