German colours... yes or no...

[IReallyWantKids]

Hi I'm thinking about German colours as names... It sounds stupid but I luv Lila and Rosa 4 girls and blau (blau as in OW when u hurt yrself)for a boy. Wot do u guys think and do u know any other names I mite like?

Wot do u think?

Lila and Rosa are both proper names though? Both pretty.

Blau sounds like someone vomiting.

Blau is awful. And no one will pronounce it Blau, they'll say blaugh or something.
Lila is nice but will people say lyla?
Rosa is nice too.

I fink Rot is gut, ja!

Braun and Schwartz don't do it for me, sorry.

Just don't go for Braun. Blau is not great either TBH.

'Blau' is also German vernacular for 'drunk' - just a point to consider. IMHO it's also not very nice.

Lila and Rosa are completely fine. Rosa I actually like a great deal (it was my nana's name).

Gelb, anyone?

Actually, Grün promises a lifetime's worth of fun with trying to get folks to pronounce the umlaut correctly ...

Gelb would be particularly nice.

How about hell-blau?

Orange then the English would geddit

To be fair, in amongst all the text speak I had trouble picking out the names.

Do you have German connections?

My dh's dad is German and dh has a German name (complete with umlaut). He's spent his whole life spelling it out, and that's with the unusual even-for-Germany surname.

Dh doesn't mind much now, in his 40s, but his childhood/adolescence was a haze of bullying.

These don't really work either:
Purpur
Pfirsich
Kastanienbraun
Rostbraun

Lila and Rosa a lovely names anyway, but I don't think any other German colours work.

And before anyone is rude about your post, can I just mention that it isn't good netiquette to use text speak on forums like this.

Ocker and Zinnober, twin brothers!

Would it need to be German? Can we have posts from speakers of other languages to keep this going...

Noir
Rouge
Verde

Sound like Xmen.

Excellent work mynameis

Chinese names can be colours. Hong was very frequently used in Maoist days.

I like Lila and Rosa but not Blau sorry.

Spanish colour names that work:

Violetta
Rosa
Blanca

I don't think anything really works...

What colour is little Hong pls?

Murasaki... I have forgotten how to spell it... purple in Japanese and the author of the first novel written in Japanese, I think, if I remember rightly... unfortunately it is a very dull, long, repetitive novel...

Hong is red. And a fine Communist name!

Lila and rosa are lovely . I particularly like rosa .

What is an umlaut ?

It's a wind up I bet! 'Wot do you think?'