International boys names

[Maya15]

hi
I am currently pregnant with my first DC and we have not found out if it is going to be a boy or a girl. We have few girls names but no boys names yet but also a long list of criteria
The name should be:
international (the baby will have British and Italian nationality and also grow up speaking with German with lots of family in German speaking countries)
not biblical
not starting with V or M (alliterations with surname)
not start with Th or J (non-British family members find it hard to pronounce)
not be names of current or dead members of the British Royal family

Any ideas are gratefully received! Currently we don't have one single boys name that we both like.
If it helps the girls names we like are Ada, Isadora, Alba, Letizia, Allegra and Billie.

Daniel and Alex seem to work well across European countries.

Hans is an "old man's" short form of Johann (John) in Germany - at least where we live. There are lots of young boys called Johann or Johannes but none of them ever get Hans as a short form, where all the 40+ Johann s are Hans.

Sebastian is very popular but gets shortened to Bastie not Seb. Bastian is also used as a full name.

Alex and Max are probably your safest bets - and Luca/ Lucas... But all are very, very popular/ frequently chosen.

Boys in my 7 yos school class in Germany are:

Andreas
Paul
Felix
Lucas
Philip
Christian
Erik
Simon
Jonas
Markus
Maximilian (Maxl)
David

Boys in my 9 yo ' s class are:

Luca
Alexander x 2
Benedikt
Anselm
Thomas
Noah
Martin
Sebastian
Dominik

Boys in 3 yo ' s class are:

Laurencekirk
Dominik
Flavious
Nikon
Henry
Luca
Lucas
Ben

*Nikko not Nikon!
Laurence - not sure where Laurencekirk came from!

I wanted to call DS2 Axel, but didn't because of the likelihood of being teased about being an armpit :o

Nikon?! Is his brother Kodak? Are Germans as sharply divided about "unique" names as the British or is there more of a live and let live attitude?

It was an auto correct fail Bluestocking - I corrected it in the post straight after.

They actually refuse to register ridiculous names in general, and sometimes parents have to prove unusual choices are genuine names by producing evidence of existing individuals with the name.

Very interesting to hear of names from schools in other countries. Sorry to be a bore, but the OP did say she wanted to avoid Bible names, and Andreas, Daniel, Lucas (all spellings), Johann, Paul, Ben, Philip, Simon, Jonas, Markus, David, Thomas, Noah are all from the Bible. Felix appears in the Bible too, but not as a main character.

I'm not pointing this out because I'm religious, just because I'm interested in word and name origins ....

In the 2 parallel classes to my 3 year old's (all mixed 3-6 yos) there are a

Raphael x 2
Korbinian
Philip
Sebastian
Max (not sure if it's short for anything as don't have a class list for parallel class)

Korbinian and Raphael are actually both pretty common around here - there's a Korbinian in the year between my older 2, and a smaller toddler one in the neighbourhood and it's a name you often hear out and about - same goes for Raphael, which I think is Italian in origin and not biblical?

Raphael is the name of one of the archangels but I have a feeling he isn’t actually named in the bible. I think just Michael and Gabriel are named. Catholicism probably named Raphael at a later date.

Cosmo! Best name ever.

Squoosh - very interesting. I looked it up. Archangel Raphael is mentioned in the Book of Tobit. In the 16th cent, many Protestants believed that the Book of Tobit was not part of the Bible. However, Roman Catholic theologians disagreed, and said that it was. Am not sure what today's scholars think, from either tradition.

Gregor / gregor?

DD has a friend called Letizia which is on your girls list - she has a brother called Frederick.

Obviously whatever you call them, however international, will be pronounced subtly (or massively) differently by speakers of each language - we picked proper international names for our older twoyet they still sound ddifferent in English and German, and the DC themselves automatically pronouncetheir own names differently depending which llanguage they are speaking, even when talking to each other. That's why we gave up on bothering whether names are international and ended up giving DC3 an English name which is easy for Germans to pronounce...

Andre
Luca
Sven
Anders
Georgio
Pierre
Alphonso
Conrad
Stephen
Nicholas
Erik
Henrik
Amadeus
Wolfgang

Anders is a lovely name

We still have not found a boys name that we both like and the EED is in three weeks
Any more suggestions please? Thank you

I think you have created a problem for yourselves by your long list of exclusions.

Possibly but for various reasons we prefer not to have a biblical or royal name and would ideally like the name to go with surnames.
Both me and DP like several names mentioned on here but sadly they are not the same ones.

and thankfully we have a name if it is a girl

I like a bit of a challenge!

Well the trend in the UK is currently short names ending in -o so that really works in your favour.

Some suggestions (I know some have been mentioned before).

Aldo
Anthony
Bruno
Cornelius
Darius
Elmo
Enzo
Enrico
Fabian
Felix
Federico
Leo
Leonardo
Lorenzo
Linus
Luca
Orlando
Nico
Riccardo
Rocco
Roman
Romeo
Raphael
Timo
Titus
Toni
Vito
Walter

I think anything with a racing car association you'd probably get away with too.

Many apologies for repeating myself, but Luca (=Luke) is a name that appears in the Bible, which the OP does not want. Ditto Raphael, Timo (=Timothy), Titus and Darius. Nico (if short for Nicodemus, though it's not likely to be (!!)) , also.

Thanks RedToothBrush - some really good ones there. I really like Federico (nn could be Rico) and Orlando. Too Italian sounding for a child that will grow up in Britain?
I also liked Clemens or Clement but DP is not so keen.

What about saints and popes, are they out too?

Orlando definitely isn't too Italian. Its 576th in the last British stats (so about mid table) Orlando Bloom does make it more acceptable to British ears. Plus I've seen it tipped on a lot of baby name prediction sites for becoming a bit more popular (though I doubt it will become massive).

Federico is much more Italian, but not to the point that its alien to British ears. Especially with the nickname Rico which wouldn't be too Italian.

As I said before I think you are lucky with the trend being set to be -o endings as that makes pretty much anything Italian ending in -o much more accepted anyway.

I offer you my son's name - Cosmo (English mother and Italian father)