German & Russian ??

[MamaBlue4]

We're planning baby #5 - I think I'm pregnant but too early for test.

I have 4 other dc, all with some sort of German name, as my dh is German and we'd like another German name but my mind is completely blank and some names I find hideous. For example; my mother-in-law wants to call the baby Gertrude if it's a girl - not happening!

However I'm half Russian and would like a Russian name. My dh doesn't mind, so I'm thinking Russian name, German middle name.

We can't use Greta, Fredrich, Dieter, Domeczek, Kellen.

Any suggestions? :)

Elena
Oksana
Viktoriya

Alisha
Lorelei
Sabrina

Some of my favourite boys names are Russian :

Ilya
Kiril/Kirill - nn Kir
Konstantin
Igor - nn Iggy
Luka
Nicolai - nn Nico
Lev

For girls :
Magdalina
Anya/Anja
Severina
Mila

How well any Russian name will sit with your other DC's depends on how German sounding they are, I guess.

Good luck with #5 & with the name, OP!

Maxim
Roman
Artur

Lukas
Felix
Andreas

Vadim and Lothar.

Amalina, Albina, Birtina, Edeline, Halle, lorelei, Romy, Anastasiya, Bohdana, Inessa, kiska, Helina, Polina, Tatiana, Annushka, Uliana.
Boys; Ivo, Keifer, Kasper, Hendrich, Gunther, Nikolai, Yerik, felix

Thank you all for the suggestions. We have chosen two Russian first names each.

Boy first names: Aleksei or Nikolay (my grandfather suggested this, apparently, it's the name of a children's poet who was the author of my father's favorite book. My father's response, "It's good strong name, fond memories. I read baby da book."

We're still stuck on girls names and middle names, so keep the names coming :)

Anna?
Katarina?
Alicia?

Agnieska?

Alexander with nickname Sasha. I love it and have lived in Russia. Alexander seems Germanic but with the Russian nn.

Those boy names are lovely.

For a girl:
Maria
Olga
Sofiya
Antoniya/Antonia
Irina
Roksana
Juliya/Yuliya
Veronica
Lara
Lidiya

For baby number 5 how about Quentin (derived from Latin Quintus, meaning 5)

Other 'international' names: Frederick, Alexander, Helena, Isabella, Katharina?

Mishka for a girl means little bear I think. I love this name

kelou75 I really like Helina, it's very pretty.
Sharpkat I really love Alexander too.

Dammit so many choices!

Valentina
Agnessa

Natasha
Anastasia
Johanna
Annetta
Elena

Tatiana - nn Tanya

I live in Germany and friends' dds/dcs' friends are called Lotte (either stand-alone or as NN for Charlotte), Luise, Frieda, Clara, Franziska, Theresa (NN Resa), Lydia, Johanna, Lena, Minna, Claudia, Magdalena, Käthe.

Friends' dses/dcs' friends are Johannes, Linus, Luca, Ferdinand, Lennart, Johann, Caspar, Ludwig, Frederick. There are also Jonathans and Jeremys and Robins and Aarons, but those are less 'German'. Boys' names tend to be less strikingly German than girls'.

Sascha is good for a boy - has both a German and a Russian feel. You could put Alexander on the birth cert if you wanted.

We once lived next door to two very elderly and very sweet Russian-German sisters called Larissa and Valentina.

How about Nadeschda?

oops, sorry sharpkat, I've posted more or less what you did re Sascha

Oh, and (sorry for the series of posts) I missed off Emil. Boy's name of the moment over here and (IMO) lovely.

EvenIfYouSeeAPoppy I'm loving the names! My husband is German and my father's side is Russian, and is a little unhappy that all 4 dcs have some form of German names. When we told him we were having a 5th he was like "have strong, Russian name, yes?" Gotta please the man! Haha.

I really do like Sascha, I could the Russian spelling and pronunciation (Aleksandr), but use the German nickname. I like Kasper too. Oh, I like Emil too!

I'm drawn to Magdalena but I'm not so keen on it. How do you pronounce Nadeschda?

Nadezhda - "na-DEZH-da" (means 'hope'). [ZH as in the S sound of 'vision']

Nadia is a diminutive form (pr NAH-dya).

I like those names, more keen on Nadia :)

Ottilia/Otylia, Ksenia, Tatyana, Yelena, Yekaterina/Katharina, Irina.

Frida

my dh won't allow me :(

:) :) :)