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Names you like of children that are not British

29 replies

FrancisdeSales · 18/10/2014 00:23

I live outside the UK. some names I like from some children I know

Girls
Tirsa (Teer-sa) - Dutch
Jenica - American
Clara-Charlotte (Char-lotta) - German
Nele (Nay-lah) German
Arietta - German - Turkish descent

Boys
Johan (Yohan) - German
Loris - Italian
Valentin - Russian
Paul-Philip (Pawl-Philip) German

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BikeRunSki · 19/10/2014 05:59

Katinka (Dutch gir)
Eleni (Greek girl)

AmericasTorturedBrow · 19/10/2014 05:39

Girls
Marisol - Latina
Rosibel - Latina
Ava - Finish
Briet - Icelandic

Boys
Chike - Nigerian
Gift - Malawian
Mateo - Italian
Fabien - French

mathanxiety · 19/10/2014 04:48

Oh and Regine for a girl (French).

mathanxiety · 19/10/2014 04:41

Pernilla (Swedish iirc)
Dagmar (German)
Cosima (Italian)
Eliska (Czech)
Lida (Czech)
Polina (Russian)
Marit (Norwegian)
Xochitl (Mexican)
Sigrid 'Siri' (Swedish)

Angharad (Welsh so technically British, but not an English name)
Many Irish names.

Marek (Polish)
Casimir (Polish)
Clemens (German)
Falco (German)
Marcel (French)
Marco (Italian)
Josef (widespread)
Mariusz (Polish)

thatsn0tmyname · 18/10/2014 23:21

Satu-Finnish.
Leucine-French

BlueChampagne · 18/10/2014 23:13

Torin or Thorkell
Haroun (much nicer than Aaron)

3littlerabbits · 18/10/2014 21:53

Pablo
Ernesto
Arkady

All my imaginary boy children have exotic foreign names

Lunastarfish · 18/10/2014 21:42

Enzo, I love that it!

Username12345 · 18/10/2014 20:38

Erik
Viktor
Valentin

enderwoman · 18/10/2014 17:17

Marlene (German pronunciation)
Marisol

Turquoisetamborine · 18/10/2014 16:59

Ooh and Nahla!

Used to live in Kuwait and the girls names are so nice. Not so much the boys though.

Turquoisetamborine · 18/10/2014 16:57

Ayesha
Reema
Noora
Aaliyah

Jesus (Eesa)

All Arabic

Jennifersrabbit · 18/10/2014 16:35

Brothers called Dante and Eliodoro. Enough to make me want to steal and marry an Italian :)

OscarWinningActress · 18/10/2014 16:16

Boys:

Malik
Tariq
Matteo
Luca
Giacomo

Girls:

Atelka
Tatiana
Francesca
Fatima
Natasha

Alisvolatpropiis · 18/10/2014 16:08

bring

I went to university with a German Florian

Orangeisthenewbanana · 18/10/2014 15:53

Would never use it, but have always loved Tatiana. Also....

Jaana
Irina
Elena

Erik
Yann

bringbackfonzi · 18/10/2014 15:31

My imaginary German children are called Florian and Maren.

Iamyourmil · 18/10/2014 11:42

Girls:
Q'orianka. (Quechua)
Sakura (japanese)
Nina (German)
angelique (french)
boys:
Sebastián (Spanish)
Benoit (french)
Sergey (Russian)
Stefano (italian)

GirlsonFilm · 18/10/2014 11:39

Thekla - girl Greek

areyoubeingserviced · 18/10/2014 11:38

Agree with Imani( Muslim))

Juan( Spanish)

Sade ( shard ay)- Nigerian ( Yoruba tribe)

Radek ( Polish)

callamia · 18/10/2014 11:32

Zeki
Elena
Tiago
Yan

TheScottishPlay · 18/10/2014 11:30

Susanneke (Dutch)

Alisvolatpropiis · 18/10/2014 11:26

Lars
Annika
Aurelia

concernedaboutheboy · 18/10/2014 11:09

Kiran
Aysha
Yahya
Linnea

burgatroyd · 18/10/2014 11:06

Imani
Eleni
Meritxell
Tove
Padma
Kemi