German Baby Name

[GermanBabyInEngland]

Hello,

My husband and I just found out that we are expecting. I know it's very early days but I am cautiously getting excited.

He is English and I'm from
Germany. The baby will grow up bilingually.

We have family in Germany and ideally I'd like a name that has the same or very similar proboinciation in both languages. Does anyone have any suggestions? It's really hard to think of anything but I'd really like them
To have a name that both set of grandparents etc will find easy to use.

Thank you!

Helga

Astrid
Martha
Heidi

Robert
Peter
Hannah
Anna
Katrina

Maria
Marianna
Timo
Nicholas

OTTO! I LOVE that name but as I don't think I will ever be allowed to use it :(

Rebekka
Lia
Mia, Pia
Anja

Lars
Marko
Florian
Valentin
Anton

Johanna
Sebastian

Sabine

Many names would fit your criteria I think (Anna, Emma, Oliver, Amelia, Lena, Milla being obvious examples).

What sort of names do you like?

I’d be inclined to avoid names beginning with J, and also anything containing ‘th’. Oh, and Margot!

But otherwise a lot of names work.

Lotte
Wiebke
Rebekka
Anna
Julia
Johanna

Johann
Markus

Jonas
Micheal
Noah

Mostly going off characters on Dark by the way

Anna, Katrin, Matthias, Maria, Philip, Vanessa, Marcus?

Liesel? Not strictly German but pretty anyway!

Some of the names suggested will be pronounced differently in German though. Johanna is usually pronounced as "Joanna" in English but will be "yo-hun-na" in German. Sabine will be "sa-been" in English but "za-been-a" in German.

I love Maren but it is usually pronounced as "marren" in English rather than "mahr-ren".

We had a similar situation (though I'm English; German husband). We had a lot of the names suggested up thread, but opted for Henrik. Although Scandinavian, it works in both languages.

Max
Hugo
Victor

Petra

I have a lovely German friend called Carmen

Phillip
Oscar
Karl
Emma
Lily
Lucas
Marcus
Mia
I'm english with german DH, so we made a similar list

Andreas
Alex/Alexander
Adrian
Alfred
Axel
Arthur
Carl
Christoph
Erik
Fabian
Felix
Fred
Gabriel

Ada
Amalie
Alexandra
Angelika
Asta
Antonia
Anna
Emma
Elisabeth
Elsbeth
Eva
Charlotte
Gisela

Henning or Klaus. I also have a German dp and bilingual dd.

Beatrix
charlotte
Albert
Catrin
Flora
Frank
Greta

Sorry just reread OP and you are after similar pronunciation not just names both GPs can use

Elias
Henry
Dominic
Linus

Leonie
Nele
Emmi
Mila

Larissa
Tom

Christa
Isolde
Heidi

Sebastian
Gabriel
Oskar