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!

Dd1 and 3 have Danish middlenames. Odly people seem to cope better with dd3 mn that really hasnt got a English equivalent (Sørine) than dd1s mn (Margrethe) people want to either make it Margaret or they completely tongue twist it. With dd3 its past their usual experience so they ask and get it right (pronounced like Sssrr Rhi neh) Sometimes I wish we had given her this for her first name as I do love it but with a letter that doesn't exist in the English alphabet this would be hard (her 1st name is Irish so we did make it hard for her )

Is Tove pronounced Tuh-vuh? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Tove in danish is more like toe (as in your toes) vuh.

Moomintrolls

From child's class register we have:

Alberte
Ethel (Eeeee Taal)
Ida (Eeeee Dah)
Ingrid (In Grill)
Josefine
Matilde
Nanna
Silke
Sofie
Elna
Emma
Filippa
Natalie
Liva

I describe Tove as if someone from Yorkshire was asking for the vacuum cleaner ...

(The pronunciation, that is).

Christa

Zampa Love it.

I love the German name Sabine there was a girl at my school called that and her mum was German x

Elke
Ellika
Kaisla
Eini
Tuuli
Miia
Aili
Minna
Sofia
Iida
Tove
Emilie
Nora

I'm Danish - and there are several of the names above I've never heard. Mali, Tiril and Cayla for instance are definitely not Danish. In general, for names with an ''e" and and "a" version, the "e" version is the most traditional Danish - Marie, Christine, Anne, Julie, etc. Names that are very popular at the moment are short and with "a" endings: Alma, Frida, Liva, Nora. I think they all work well with anglophones also (I have a Nora which works in Danish, English and French which is what we needed)

We thought of Sophia for a girl... In our case though we have decided if we have a girl we would use the English spelling of the name just wanted it to sound the same when said in Danish... I'd avoid anything with a j at the beginning... As my husband hates when people here try to say they Danish version of his name.. He goes by the English pronunciation here but obviously his family call him the Danish version when we are over in Denmark.
Pronunciation being the same is important for us as I know I don't say his cousins name right (no matter how hard I try!!) and it really gets to me.. She is called Lærke.
I also liked
Hanne (Hannah)
Anne (Anna)
Emilie (Emilia)

Had a mate called Hedwig, she always shortened her name to Hedy.

I love Petra and also Astrid.

I know a Danish Ida (pronounced Eeda) which I think is very pretty. I also know a Danish Sofia with an F.

Anna is a classic which works well in almost any language.