Danish/European/Scandi girls names

[thepatchworkcat]

Looking for suggestions of girls’ names as above please!
I have some tenuous connection to Denmark and Germany and like the names but would need something that works in the UK too.

I like
Annika/Anneka/Anneke
Annalise
But DH is not keen

Further suggestions welcome!

I have an Astrid (DH was half Swedish) and everyone including me adores her name

I used to work with a Solveig .. (she pronounced it Solvay)
I really like Mille also

I like Annika and Katja.

Maja, Ida, Ingrid, Astrid, Kristina, Laila, Lena, Lotta, Birgit, Siri, Katarina, Lilja, Cecilia, Elin, Elisabet, Frida, Freja, Marit, Pernille, Runa, Selma, Solveig, Erik/ca, Alva, Anita, Johanna, Karin, Karla, Malin, Lovisa, Sunniva, Tuva, Ylva, Viktoria.

Bodil
Karen
Mette
Maja
Inger
Lone
Rikke
Anna-Sofie
Lise-Lotte

How is Signe pronounced please?

'Si' as in 'sister', 'ne' as in 'never' - you don't pronounce the 'g'.

Annemieke

Signe = see nuh

In Sweden Signe is pronounced Sing-nuh

Little girls born recently here:
Nellie
Alma
Moa
Emma
Sigrid
Saga
Lovisa
Hedwig
Tilde

Our second is Saskia.

Also the name of Remabrandt's wife.

I recently taught a student from Sweden and she was called Tuulia. We pronounced it as it looks but she said at home it was pronounced sort of like Julia.

also names like Lisabeth and Judith in Danish have a hard T rather than TH sound. so Lisabet - Judith is pronounced Yudit .. my J name is really hard for some Danes i have found especially older ones.. .. (think famous presidents wife )

Susanne

Inga Ingrid Ann-Sofie

Bitten

Ingrid
Sofie
Lisbeth

Some European/Scandi names that I like:

Evelina
Ingrid
Freja
Ada
Ida
Tuva
Liv
Alma
Amelie
Bridgette
Linnea
Leonie

Vibeke - can b shortened to Becky etc
Anne
Johanna
Sybille

Danish born here you do NOT pronounce the e ending as an A They have all of the names with an "A" ending too just often more unusual..

Depending on the name obviously (like in the UK) mostly the e ending is more like a " eH" sound or a bit like errrH if that makes sense?

The description of how to say Signe is wonderful :)

My danish friends/relatives with girls have girls called

Sofie
Anne (Anneh pronounciation)
Maja
Sara
Filuca
Emma
Frederikke
Therese

Johanne
Cecilie
Emma
Janni
Rebecca
Katrina
Pernille
Hannah-Jean *though she doesnt really count as is half Danish half English

Just remembered a few more:

Erika
Ebba
Asta
Astrid
Stella
Amalia
Nova

I adore Mette but the pronunciation isn't obvious. The Ts are more like a D and there's a short "eh" sound at the end. A bit like you say Meadow but get cut off before you finish the final syllable. It's gorgeous but probably a bit annoying to have to spell or correct all the time?

Some German ones, likely some of these are old-fashioned so you'd need to check current popularity if that might bother you/relatives (though judging by what's happened in the UK some of them might be back by now!):
Anne
Anneliese
Dorothea
Julia
Lieselotte
Lina
Luise
Herta
Marta
Sabine

Lumi?

We've used Tove and Leonore in our two DDs names.

There are pronunciation issues with Tove so decided to use as a middle name but I sometimes wish I hadn't bottled it!

TBH if you don't speak Danish, you aren't going to get Danish pronounciation. Even names like Sara sounds really different said by a Dane.

I have:

my name said wrong
my name said right English style
my name said by a Dane - poetry

I answer to all 3.

DH on the other hand says Danish sounds like a disease of the throat.

Astrid
Linnea
Ingela
Sigrid