Any especially fab or perhaps unusual Dutch or Flemish boys names

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Which might work well in the UK too? Feel free to throw in some girls' names, but mainly looking for boys' or gender neutral as our girls' list is reasonably populated already.
I guess there are mostly English equivalents, but I'd like to take stock of the Dutch/Flemish versions as my mind is pretty darn blank these days. TIA.

Lars
Hendrik
Elmo (maybe not)
Espen
Dael
Dirk
Bram
Jan
Issac
Gerrit
Gust

Arabella
Anika
Ede

Lars is fabulous !
Xavier
Willem

Saskia

I'm worried about J and G and R names. :( For example, people are always likely to say Jan like the J in Janet instead of Yan, surely?

Otto

Thys

Willem
Max
Arno
Sander

Here's the Flemish baby names site: www.kindengezin.be/toepassingen/populaire-voornamen.jsp
Particularly flemish ones are:
Tuur
Seppe
Mathis
Elias
Wout
Kobe
Mats
Emiel
Ferre
Sem
Warre
Cas
Bas
Miel
Juul
Sep
Mil

Oh thanks rivier that will be quite helpful.
Thys will surely end up pronounced as Thays, without the hard T? I'm probably fighting a losing battle, veter

Do you speak Dutch? Thijs not only has a hard t, but also has vowel sound that doesn't exist in English.
I agree that most people will assume a name starting with J will be pronounced like Janet and not like yellow.
You'll probably get closest with one of the short Flemish boys names like Sep, Seppe, Cas, Bas.

I know an Alfons, Ben, Sander and Pepijn.

I have a Jasper. He has always been called by the Dutch the pronunciation ( which I loved before I had met Dutch DH anyway). We chose it because it worked in English too.
So may names of the class mates have English equivilentsnor wouldn't work in English very well.

My Belgian flemish speaking DP is called Glenn.

Wim

Glenn.
Yes rivier, I do. I'm less worried about the ij vowel sound than about the hard T, maybe because if combined with an H at the start it will always be 'th' rather than 't', and the start of a name somehow seems important to me.
I like the Seppe and Jasper suggestions.
There are a lot of single syllable names yes, but with my surname a two or three syllable name will sound a lot better.

Fidelis - (Fi-DAY-liss) I just love that name but you'd need a Dutch connection to get away with it.

Otto
Hendrik

Alfons is great.

Espen is lovely.

Fidelis is lovely.

Based on one of the other threads on here, would you consider it foolish to choose Diek (or Diekie?) Or would you choose Dirk instead, and nn it to Diek? I don't like Dirk or Dirkie, but do like Diek/Diekie. Is it inevitable that it would become a rude name in the UK?

Espen is good. More Scandinavian? I don't think I've met any?

You might find an especially fab name on here:

www.behindthename.com/names/usage/dutch

(I personally like Otto, Anneliese, Catharina, Henrik, Vincent, Niels, Lars, Cecilia, Clemens, Claudia, Edwin, Leo(n) and Lennart.)

I wouldn’t go with Diekie. But I’m the user that started the Dickie thread so it’s possible that I’m currently a bit oversensitive in regards to that...

Dirk is nice :)! But it may have some violent connotations to English speakers? (a bit like like Colt, Gunner, Beretta etc)

Urgh not Hendrik. We have a Henrik, and he gets called Hendrik all the time and it drives me nuts!

Oh and how could I for get Torsten( third hammer). Not completely dutch but but very cool.
It is so hard to find a name that works both ways. DH is a Jort. Very popular now but growing up not. Living overseas no one could say it, even me the first time I heard it.
I like Dirk.

Pepijn
Xander
Bram
Robbert
Guus
Bas
Erik
Gertwin
Jurre
Mees
Arno
Erwin
Ewout
Daan
Matthias
Johan