Agnetha?

[LanternGirl]

Just watched an Abba documentary, and thought Agnetha (pn An-yetta) is a beautiful name, and could have Anna/Annie as a nn. Have no Swedish/Scandinavian association, just love the name. Could you justly use it in the UK do you think?

Agree that it's lovely but too closely associated with ABBA for me. I think you would get a lot of Benni, Bjorn and Freida jokes.

It's a lovely name but unless you have Scandinavian connections, I wouldn't.

I'd assume you were an Abba fan. Then I'd back away slowly.

I quite like it. But I think you would get a lot of Agathas written down, and spoken.

I like it, but I think people who aren't into ABBA would pronounce it Agg-nee-tha and you'd have to keep correcting them.

How about Annetta or Anya?

Love it, was thinking the same myself

Another option would be Agnes, pronounced An-yes
Think it's Dutch?

I think it's really pretty, but I always pronounced it as Ag-nee-tha before I heard how it was actually said.

I would think you were either Swedish or a big Abba fan.

As soon as I saw the title, I thought... bet she's just been watching the ABBA programme
Even Agnetha herself started the programme by saying that her name was difficult to pronounce for anyone who is not Swedish.
Personally I wouldn't name a child anything that I knew from the outset was going to cause them difficulty throughout their lives.