DP and I have decided TTC in a few months and are having a good-natured bicker about what to call our DC. He is German, I am English and we live in the UK. For the time being (at least ten years) we will stay here.
His favourite name, Finn, was taken by his best friends back home six years ago. He would like very old, Germanic names that no one has heard of and I am stumped. Either they are ridiculous (Adalhard anyone?) or 'too modern', e.g. Max (although I know it's an old name but it's popular now).
He doesn't want: modern, popular, anything that his uncles/close male relatives were called.
I like (and he has vetoed): Karl, Max, Edward, Edmund, Oskar, Georg.
I am beginning to wonder if anything fits the bill? It's all highly theoretical, but good fun :)
Girl's name is sorted as my favourite for many, many years is Dorothea and I won't be budged/he's given in.
I've seen some excellent suggestions on here before - any ideas please? My prime motivation is that I suspect he is actually serious and I'd like to find some names that won't lead to our child(ren) getting bullied the second they go to school! I also have a name no one can spell and it's dead annoying. Don't want to lumber my kids with the same.