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Danish/European/Scandi girls names

65 replies

thepatchworkcat · 08/02/2018 17:39

Looking for suggestions of girls’ names as above please!
I have some tenuous connection to Denmark and Germany and like the names but would need something that works in the UK too.

I like
Annika/Anneka/Anneke
Annalise
But DH is not keen

Further suggestions welcome!

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CormoranStrike · 09/02/2018 17:41

Ingrid
Sofie
Lisbeth

Gladiola44 · 09/02/2018 15:43

Bitten

MikeUniformMike · 09/02/2018 15:39

Inga Ingrid Ann-Sofie

MikeUniformMike · 09/02/2018 15:23

Susanne

Laska5772 · 09/02/2018 08:37

also names like Lisabeth and Judith in Danish have a hard T rather than TH sound. so Lisabet - Judith is pronounced Yudit .. my J name is really hard for some Danes i have found especially older ones.. .. (think famous presidents wife Smile)

ghostbusters · 09/02/2018 07:39

I recently taught a student from Sweden and she was called Tuulia. We pronounced it as it looks but she said at home it was pronounced sort of like Julia.

DasPepe · 09/02/2018 05:53

Our second is Saskia.

Also the name of Remabrandt's wife.

surroundedbyblondes · 09/02/2018 05:47

In Sweden Signe is pronounced Sing-nuh

Little girls born recently here:
Nellie
Alma
Moa
Emma
Sigrid
Saga
Lovisa
Hedwig
Tilde

redexpat · 09/02/2018 05:10

Signe = see nuh

DuggeeHugs · 09/02/2018 00:38

Annemieke

mstrotwood · 08/02/2018 22:18

How is Signe pronounced please?

'Si' as in 'sister', 'ne' as in 'never' - you don't pronounce the 'g'.

PatsyStone39 · 08/02/2018 22:10

Bodil
Karen
Mette
Maja
Inger
Lone
Rikke
Anna-Sofie
Lise-Lotte

floriad · 08/02/2018 21:09

I like Annika and Katja.

Maja, Ida, Ingrid, Astrid, Kristina, Laila, Lena, Lotta, Birgit, Siri, Katarina, Lilja, Cecilia, Elin, Elisabet, Frida, Freja, Marit, Pernille, Runa, Selma, Solveig, Erik/ca, Alva, Anita, Johanna, Karin, Karla, Malin, Lovisa, Sunniva, Tuva, Ylva, Viktoria.

Laska5772 · 08/02/2018 20:25

I used to work with a Solveig .. (she pronounced it Solvay)
I really like Mille also

grobagsforever · 08/02/2018 20:24

I have an Astrid (DH was half Swedish) and everyone including me adores her name

midsomermurderess · 08/02/2018 20:21

It’s hard to know what is considered old-fashioned in another country but I like Laerke, Signe, Solveig.

AnyaMoondial · 08/02/2018 20:05

Elke
Katja

Original poster
thepatchworkcat · 08/02/2018 19:52

Oh I love so many of those names!
But they don’t all work with the surname.
Thanks for replies.

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redexpat · 08/02/2018 19:45

Here is the link to Danmark Statistik with the most popular names from the first half of 2017.

CormoranStrike · 08/02/2018 19:38

Freya
Hanna
Sylvie

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 08/02/2018 19:18

Marietta

MrsGloop · 08/02/2018 18:57

Maren - pronounced to rhyme either with “car” or “care”

HeyMicky · 08/02/2018 18:57

Women and girls I know:

Mali
Charlotte (a ending)
Cayla
Sigrid
Dahlia
Christina
Lotte (a ending)

RavenWings · 08/02/2018 18:56

Mareike. Mah-rye-kah.

MikeUniformMike · 08/02/2018 18:55

Marta