Icelandic/Scandinavian names

[eltsihT]

My hubby is icelandic, and we have a really boring British surname. We have agreed to give our kids icelandic names so that they arn't called John Smith.

Being a school teacher I have been a little grumpy and ruled out any names that I can't pronounce correctlty by reading them and any with non English characters (ð etc)

We have a son called Ragnar and a yellow bump, pretty set on Lilja for a girl, but would love some suggestions for boys (and girls too), been thinking about Ólafur for a boy but if we shorten the names our boys would be raggi and oli (rags and holes) am I over thinking this???

[eltsihT]

Thanks everyone for the replies, we have settled on Einar Henry for a boy, or Hazel Ingunn for a girl.

[mathanxiety]

For a girl:
Pernilla (Swedish)
Dagmar
Elin
Erla
Eva
Lara
Margret
Fjola
Sigrid (Siri)
Ros
Sigrun
Rakel

For a boy:
Ari
Einar
Hannes
Jens
Jonas
Hakon
Finnur
Gunnar
Geir
Oskar
Gisli
Sindri

No accents included in my spellings, sorry.

[SilentMammoth]

Jonsi, how do you pronounce that? Yon_see? Is it male or female?

[forevergreek]

my (female) friend is kolbrun (kolla)

otherwise girls:
Anika
Agnes

boys:
Abel

[Littleniff]

Jonsi

[Marmom]

Icelandic/Old Norse

"Ari" meaning "eagle" or "fast flying one". Etymologically closely related to the Icelandic word "ör" (arrow).

I love this name for a boy, but Ari is a unisex name.

[HeffaFlump]

Danica is a lovely Scandinavian name for a girl & works well in England with the pronunciation etc

[OddFrog]

I like Espen for a boy.

[FatJasper]

Love Smilla and Hedda.

[serin]

Tuuli for a girl (Too Lee)

Lars for a boy

[NoRoomForMeInMyBed]

DS2 is Magnus, people always comment on it and it never gets shortened. It suits him perfectly...I love your choice of names OP, love Lilja!

[haggisaggis]

Anders, Lars, Thor are 3 I like (and ds is one of them!)

[HoneyandRum]

My dd's godfather is Icelandic, his name is Ingvar (which I love) his kids are called Christian (spelt Islandic way which I can't remember!) Katerina and Johannes (Yo-hannes) they live in the US so all the names have worked in an English speaking context. Ingvar is still my favorite - awesome name and awesome bloke!

[iheartmycat]

Stian

Britt-Helena

[Pannacotta2013]

Ferdinand, shortened to Feddi - very nice.

[itisimplicit]

My (Swedish) uncle is named Nils, and my female relatives are Dagmar, Helga, Ingrid and Heike.

[telsa]

Hildur
Bjork!
Larus
Sindri
Tryggvi
Vigdis

[BlueChampagne]

Thorkell

[Lyftiduft]

have you seen this site, I love it geek www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Main_Page

I also think you're overthinking Raggi and Oli :)

Einar? Stefan? Sindri?
I've taught a Lars and Nils (British but some Scandi heritage).

Inga? I like Lilja a lot.

[SchroSawMargeryDaw]

I have an Eirik.

I think Viktor is a great name as well.

[RedRobin1]

Linnea for a girl

[schroedingersdodo]

Lars and Viggo are great. Too bad I had no excuse to use such names as I'm from nowhere near Scandinavia...

[Sashapineapple]

Can only think boys, either Soren or Lars.

[sausageandorangepickle]

When I was at Uni I knew a girl named Smilla (like the book 'miss smilla's feeling for snow') and she was always called Smile by everyone - lovely! I also love Erika or Ingrid - and is Pippi (Longstocking) scandinavian?

[emsyj]

Astrid was on our list for DD2, lovely name - I went to school with an Icelandic girl called Stanen, which I always thought was very pretty.