can anyone suggest dutch names...boy or girl

[mamaesi]

i would like to find a great dutch name. although my grandparents were from there, no one in the family speaks a lick of it..

can anyone suggest some names (with pronunciation if not obvious)

traditional and new and unique...all types welcome. thank you!

Anne-Sofie
Anne-Marie
are both very traditional combinations, with Anya/ Mia/Mieke (Mee-kuh) being the diminutives.

Silke and Femke are both very dutch, pronounced with two syllables, Sil-kuh and Fem-kuh.

Wouter/Wim/Willem/Bram/Wannes are all boys names.

I have a friend who's mum is Dutch. Their family has Yosien (yo-seen), Inneke (ee-nicka), Elske, all girl's names

Ruth seems to be common in Holland.

www.babynamefacts.com/popularnames/countries.php?country=NET

Els (name of a tree)
Merel (type of bird)

are both popular for girls.

What were your grandparents names mamasi?

I only know a few boys - but a few more girls!!
pronunciations in ()
girls
liske (lis-ker)
erne (er-nah)
Meika (My-kah)
fleur
ineke (in-ee-kah)
Anja (an-ya)

boys
jan wout (yan-vald)
Pieter (peter)

Andries (An-drees) is the boy;s version of Andrew.

Joris is the dutch version of George, pronounced Yoris.

I have two dutch female friends called Ineke (ee nu ku)

I also know a day called Lisette.

Men called: Pieter (Peter), Jan, Marc, Isaak.

Also a little called called Elsje (elsha) not sure if it's dutch or swedish though. Beautiful name though!

My DSinlaw is Dutch and her and bro have named their two boys Oskar and jasper (pronounced Yasper).
They wanted Dutch names that work here to as they live in UK.

Saskia

Hans

I love

Floris
Andries
Maurits
Hendrik (Henk)

for girl

Marijke
Saskia
Femke

Some Dutch friends:

Klara
Sanne (son-uh)
Saskia
Wietske (Veet-sku)
Griet (pronounced vaguely like Reet but with a throaty g in front, everyone just calls her 'ee' although I'm not sure where that came from - I guess it's a universal sound!)
Liesbeth
Sterre (ster-uh)

Karel
Andries
Joris (your-iss)
Bram (long a - brarm)
Pim
Thor
Jan (yan)
Adriaan (add-ree-arn)

The pronunciations do vary, I've only heard Sanne pronounced San-nuh. It's usually short for Susannah.

Arjan (Aye-an)

My Dutch midwife is called Rixt... otherwise, Dutch friends are Frans, Annika and Freya.

Not sure if these are all Dutch names but they're names from my Dutch in-law's or Dutch friends:

Guido
Eef
Joop
Gerda
Ell
Ank
Wim
Jaap
Joop
Nico
Cor
Truus
Willem
Ida
Anneke
Marieke
Alida
Hans
Siem
Anja
Coby
Marco
Jeroen
Mirjam
Co
Hilda
Rinus
Herman
Liljan

Tabithe (tebeater)
Wilhemina

If you want a name not overly Dutch maybe something like Juliana? My friend's daughter is named Juliana as her husband is Dutch

Romy

Mayken
Anneken
Judick

Jan
Pieter
Allert
Rutger
Andries

Apols if these are all ancient/wrong, I've just finished reading about the wreck of the Batavia and these all cropped up among the cast and crew.