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Danish baby names?

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marionara · 16/05/2022 10:19

Hi!
Partner is Danish and we'd like to give our new little one (yet to arrive) a Danish name.
Have looked up the common ones but nothing has stood out. Thanks :-)

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marionara · 24/05/2022 09:57

JustSmallFry · 20/05/2022 08:28

Birgit
Mette
Hanne
Gitte
Lisbeth
Birthe

Jens
Rasmus
Kjeld
Viggo

I feel like Facebook really ruined Mette by rebranding as Meta ☹️

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marionara · 24/05/2022 09:57

Has anyone any others? None of these are really jumping out at us. Perhaps there just arent that many Danish names workable in English?

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marionara · 24/05/2022 09:55

LadyEloise1 · 23/05/2022 08:00

Ulrika Jonson has a daughter called Bo.

Ah okay

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newstart1234 · 23/05/2022 08:17

It's very popular right now in Denmark I think.

newstart1234 · 23/05/2022 08:15

I'm indifferent to Bo in Danish but I don't think its transfers well to english. I think of Beau- pronounced bow.

LadyEloise1 · 23/05/2022 08:00

Ulrika Jonson has a daughter called Bo.

newstart1234 · 23/05/2022 07:43

Bwww maybe in danish accent

AnnaMagnani · 22/05/2022 11:22

It would be somewhere between Bo and Bow but with a Danish accent is the best I can come up with describing it.

midsomermurderess · 22/05/2022 11:13

I came across a Swede called ‘bo’, pronounced ‘boo’. Would that be the same in Denmark? In Britain, it’d be bow.

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marionara · 22/05/2022 11:02

Bearsan · 20/05/2022 10:06

I like Bo for a boy and Pia for a girl.

To me Pernille is an old ladies name but I can see that it sounds nice if you don't know or mind.

Bo is great. Is Emma Bunton's son called Bo or did I imagine that?
Pia just reminds me of weeing ☹️

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marionara · 22/05/2022 11:01

LadyEloise1 · 20/05/2022 09:54

Thank you. I think Freya - pronounced the English way is a pretty name. I only ever met one Freya and she was lovely.

I love Freya, but its been so overused its lost its heritage almost

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KirstenBlest · 20/05/2022 10:20

@LadyEloise1 , a friend has a Freya and she's about 30. It was a nice unusual name. It's been popular for a while now so it seems overused and dull.
It also shortens to Frey which makes me think of fray like in frayed jeans.

@Bearsan , I know a Pia. I'd be scared of it shortening to Pee.

Bearsan · 20/05/2022 10:06

I like Bo for a boy and Pia for a girl.

To me Pernille is an old ladies name but I can see that it sounds nice if you don't know or mind.

newstart1234 · 20/05/2022 09:58

I like Vigga and Viggo. I've never met a young Viggo and only a couple of Viggas. They might be quite old fashioned. To me, the are creative, sensitive and strong.

LadyEloise1 · 20/05/2022 09:54

Thank you. I think Freya - pronounced the English way is a pretty name. I only ever met one Freya and she was lovely.

KirstenBlest · 20/05/2022 09:52

@LadyEloise1 , not 100% accurate but as posted before. Sort of Frrrah-yuh and Mao-nuss. You'd need to hear a native speaker.

LadyEloise1 · 20/05/2022 09:48

How are Freja and Magnus pronounced in Danish @KirstenBlest

cooldarkroom · 20/05/2022 08:37

I live another EU country.
My advise is whatever you choose, make it a name that the child won't have correct or explain the pronunciation & spelling in the UK for his entire life

Kids in my extended family with Danish mother are Mattias, Theo (T O) & Mia (Mee A)

JustSmallFry · 20/05/2022 08:28

Birgit
Mette
Hanne
Gitte
Lisbeth
Birthe

Jens
Rasmus
Kjeld
Viggo

AnnaMagnani · 20/05/2022 08:23

Tove is pretty much unpronouncable by most English people. As is Grete.

Unfortunately a lot of the girls names on the lists produced, I can personally guarantee you that English speakers will not pronounce the -e on the end which leads to some fairly awful names. They aren't good at the J either.

My name still sounds lovely, my Mum's they must know they should have asked first, it's dreadful.

DuchessOfSausage · 20/05/2022 08:17

Not Danish but Swedish and Norwegian, I like the name Åse. I think it is Aase in Danish

Mandodari · 20/05/2022 08:09

midsomermurderess · 20/05/2022 05:38

Tove is lovely, if that said broadly how I think it is, Tuva?

That's the way its pronounced in Sweden. Its such a pretty name.

FinallyHere · 20/05/2022 07:46

I love the name Anna

My Danish friend's DD is called Anna

midsomermurderess · 20/05/2022 05:38

Tove is lovely, if that said broadly how I think it is, Tuva?

Smurf123 · 19/05/2022 23:47

@midsomermurderess we have a Laerke on dh family side and I really struggle to say it correctly

Dh has a name like a Jacob and he really dislikes that it's 2 completely different pronoucations so our dc have names said the same in both English and Danish.

Boys I like Emil Mattias Nikolai
Girls Emilia Anna Mille Tove Sofia