Names that work in Danish and English

[BikeGeek]

I've got a long time to decide but struggling on finding names that work in both languages

Criteria :
Pronunciation easy for both Brits and Danes
If a Danish name not too similar to any English name that it could be mistaken for.
No non-English letters

Not finding out sex so need girls and boys names

I know a Malin (half Swedish half Finnish) which I think is a gorgeous name and easy to pronounce here. Christopher for a boy?

The Danish people I know are called :

Malin
Ella
Pernille
Freya
Nina
Yank
Bjarne
Erik

Bloody autocorrect. Yanick

Adam, Daniel? Anna?

Hannah / Hanne
Stefan
Jacob (yacob in Danish)
Annika

Magnus - no! The pronounciation is very different in Danish and English (I like both, but they hardly seem like the same name to me).

I would go for Marianna before Marianne (and generally avoid names ending in an "e" in English if you want to avoid drastically different pronounciations), I think Danes will cope fine with "a" endings, but we would anglicise Danish "e" endings (e.g. Sophie - which to my mind is more like Sophi-a, although I know that the pronounciation isn't identical) becomes "Sophee" and loses the last syllable altogether).

Yes, was planning to avoid anything ending in e as results in an extra syllable in Danish.

At the moment I'm thinking sod it, I'm just going to go for a Welsh name instead

what about Alys. Welsh for Alice but very close to the danish word for light and luz is a name in spanish. {a leap}

obviously it would be more like aloos in Danish?

Bethan / Beetan
Olwen / olvayn - too close to the beer?

I was just about to suggest Mette! How about Maren? Beautiful name. Or Berit?

Maren is on the shortlist although OH thinks it's old fashioned.

Welsh girls names I like are Seren, Eira, Awel, Elin, Megan

I have a very good Canadian/Danish friend called Kirsten which is pronounced Kiss-ten - lovely.

Max and Lisa. Works in most languages. I like Elin from your list OP. I would avoid "R" sound completely, as it can change pronunciation of the name.

Would Anders work?

Camilla sounds almost the same in both languages as does Maria, Esther and Victoria for a girl (wracks brain for all the Danes I know). Lars, Sebastian, Alexander are similarly pronounced for boys.

The Danes I know don't pronounce Maria the same way as an English person would.

Camilla just is instant association with Camilla Parker Bowles so that's a no!

If Mary and Fred can name their child Vincent Prince Vince then anything is possible.

We have a similar dilemma for our future child but have settled on Anabel or Arthur, both variations on family names, even though it will end up being Artur in Danish. DP also has DSS Felix which is also a good language independent name (given he has Danish and Russian parents and lives in Switzerland) probably just outed myself!

I think surname precludes any names ending in s

A shame because there's a few I like

How do you pronaunce Alban in Danish? Nn Albie

Quite excited to find another Danish/ English combo :).
We named our child Magnus, after his great-grandfather. Works OK in English too.

We also considered Caspar.

Reading up, the pronounciation is very different, yes, but we've not found a problem. DP calls him the Danish way, I call him the English way and he answers to both.