Please help with boy's name, we live in German-speaking country

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viennesewhirl · 14/01/2009 20:13

I want it to be something that sounds the same whether a German or an English speaker is saying it. Theo would be pronounced "Tayo" here, for example, and George as "Gay-org" so they're no good. It cuts out a lot of possiblities - ie anything starting with or including J, W, Th, R. Our first son is called Noah. These are names I like - what do you think - and do you have any suggestions?! Thank you!

Elliot
Lev
Asher
Sol / Solomon
Constantin
Oskar
Casper

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daisy5 · 14/01/2009 23:08

I like Tobias which works as Toby in the UK

daisy5 · 14/01/2009 23:08

I like Tobias which works as Toby in the UK

LynetteScavo · 14/01/2009 22:58

I love Lucas/Lukas or Oscar/Oskar.

Asher is georgous!!!!

As long as you don't go for Werner, you should be fine.

gauly · 14/01/2009 22:52

Some more names:

Finn, Ben, Tim, Philip, Oliver, Eric, Anton, Mark, Marcel

From your list I really like Casper and that works very well in both languages.

BoffinMum · 14/01/2009 21:49

Conrad transports between the two countries very well. As does Oscar and Felix.

annasmami · 14/01/2009 21:42

We're in the same position (only that we live in England) and here are some names from our boys' list:

Thomas
Quentin
Dominik
Lukas
Elliot

Ponders · 14/01/2009 20:49

My boss's wife is German; she is considering Sebastian too, he's not keen (dunno why, I was about to have a go at convincing him & we got interrupted & then he went home)

gauly · 14/01/2009 20:46

My husband is German so we went through this. We've got three girls so didn't use any boys names but these are some names that we considered or that I've heard in Germany:

Max
Alexander
Sebastian
Daniel
Tobias
Dominik
Harry
Frank
Felix
Thomas
Albert
Christian
Isaak

LightShinesInTheDarkness · 14/01/2009 20:27

Luka/s?

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