Danish Names - What do you think...and can you say them

[letsgorunning]

DH is Danish, I'm not (but lived there for over a decade, speak danish fluently, that is what we speak at home etc)
We have 2 months to go, but what do you think of these (we have tried to go for ones that fit into English okay - we think)
haven't included pronounciations on purpose

Boys
Axel
Casper
Bent
Mikkel
Niels
Søren
Mads

Girls
Mette
Helle
Astrid
Sofie
Maja
Bodil
Dorete
Asta

[kelly2000]

karstan,
I really hate the rød grød med fløde test, it always comes across as being used in a bit of a racist way. It is the equivilent of getting a foreigner in the UK who is trying to learn English and asking them to say red lorry yellow lorry, or she sells seashells by the seashore, and then laughing at them when they sound foreign when they say it and then going on about English being so difficult for foreigners.

[Italiangreyhound]

Boys
Axel - not a fan
Casper - OK
Bent - no!
Mikkel - good - English nick name would probably be Mick/Micky/Mikey
Niels - nice and classy
Søren - love it
Mads - not a fan

Girls
Mette - no idea how to pronounce
Helle - lovely
Astrid - lovely
Sofie - lovely but close to Sophie
Maja - not sure
Bodil - undecided, it's either fabulous or not for me (confused face emotion!)
Dorete - cute, probably get abreviated to Dora though if you are in UK
Asta - lovely but I agree that they will be called Asda!

So big thumbs up for Søren, Mikkel, Helle and Astrid and yes, lets say Bodil - fab, they might end up being called Bo or Boo, which is cue too.

Just my humble opinion.

[mathanxiety]

Søren, Mikkel,Axel, Niels
Mette,Asta,Maja,Sofie

I love Axel and Niels, and Mette and Sofie. Asta would be too close to Asda, and Maja would be pronounced Mah-jah, May-a or MY-ah and you would spend your life correcting people.

Of the discarded names, I love Helle and Astrid, and Pernille (one of my favourite names) as suggested by a pp.

[pigsinmud]

What about Elin? We have an Elin - welsh and scandinavian. Easy to pronounce apart from those who insist on saying Ellen.

[mathanxiety]

Lovely name.