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German Baby Name

35 replies

GermanBabyInEngland · 14/07/2018 21:23

Hello,

My husband and I just found out that we are expecting. I know it's very early days but I am cautiously getting excited.

He is English and I'm from
Germany. The baby will grow up bilingually.

We have family in Germany and ideally I'd like a name that has the same or very similar proboinciation in both languages. Does anyone have any suggestions? It's really hard to think of anything but I'd really like them
To have a name that both set of grandparents etc will find easy to use.

Thank you!

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HostaToFortune · 16/07/2018 18:58

Conrad

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 16/07/2018 18:58

Angelika
Ulrike
Susanna
Krista

Markus
Konrad
Hans
Maximilian

Lottie35 · 16/07/2018 18:52

Otto!

Whynotnowbaby · 16/07/2018 16:05

Lola, Emily, Annie, Emma, Klara,

Felix, Freddie, Markus, Florian, Sebastian

AuntieUrsula · 16/07/2018 16:01

Same situation here, and we went with Hannah and Emily for DDs (rejecting our first choice Rachel as it didn't fit the criteria!)

LeeMiller · 16/07/2018 13:07

German friends and their children are Max, Zacharius/Zach, Lucas, Sebastian, Felix and Hannah/Hanna, Emilia, Freida, Erika, Katarina and Sabrina.

RavenWings · 16/07/2018 12:55

Or Maren, actually

RavenWings · 16/07/2018 12:54

I think Mareike for a girl is lovely.

viktoria · 16/07/2018 12:52

Can only think of boys names:
Benno
Tom
Johann
Otto

Screenburn · 15/07/2018 10:24

Love the name Hannes - I know one raised in England who never had any problems with pronunciation.

TatianaLarina · 14/07/2018 22:42

Christa
Isolde
Heidi

Sebastian
Gabriel
Oskar

DianaBlythe · 14/07/2018 22:38

Larissa
Tom

Icklepup · 14/07/2018 22:27

Elias
Henry
Dominic
Linus

Leonie
Nele
Emmi
Mila

PeggySchuylar · 14/07/2018 22:10

Sorry just reread OP and you are after similar pronunciation not just names both GPs can use Blush

fruitbrewhaha · 14/07/2018 22:06

Beatrix
charlotte
Albert
Catrin
Flora
Frank
Greta

Bananalanacake · 14/07/2018 22:02

Henning or Klaus. I also have a German dp and bilingual dd.

PeggySchuylar · 14/07/2018 21:58

Andreas
Alex/Alexander
Adrian
Alfred
Axel
Arthur
Carl
Christoph
Erik
Fabian
Felix
Fred
Gabriel

Ada
Amalie
Alexandra
Angelika
Asta
Antonia
Anna
Emma
Elisabeth
Elsbeth
Eva
Charlotte
Gisela

Ginxed · 14/07/2018 21:56

Phillip
Oscar
Karl
Emma
Lily
Lucas
Marcus
Mia
I'm english with german DH, so we made a similar list

Flywheel · 14/07/2018 21:52

I have a lovely German friend called Carmen

gingerpickles · 14/07/2018 21:52

Max
Hugo
Victor

Petra

GemmaB78 · 14/07/2018 21:52

We had a similar situation (though I'm English; German husband). We had a lot of the names suggested up thread, but opted for Henrik. Although Scandinavian, it works in both languages.

BlackLambAndGreyFalcon · 14/07/2018 21:51

Some of the names suggested will be pronounced differently in German though. Johanna is usually pronounced as "Joanna" in English but will be "yo-hun-na" in German. Sabine will be "sa-been" in English but "za-been-a" in German.

I love Maren but it is usually pronounced as "marren" in English rather than "mahr-ren".

GriseldaChop · 14/07/2018 21:51

Liesel? Not strictly German but pretty anyway!

yougogirl150 · 14/07/2018 21:50

Anna, Katrin, Matthias, Maria, Philip, Vanessa, Marcus?

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 14/07/2018 21:48

Jonas
Micheal
Noah

Mostly going off characters on Dark by the way

Grin