English/Serbian boys names

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Posted about this a while back - dh is Serbian, I'm British, and we want to choose names that work in both Serbian and English.

We have two dds already - Leonora (Norah) and Violeta (Lettie) - and want a name for ds that 'goes' well with them.

We were going to use Aleksandar, but our next door neighbour has just had a baby boy who she's named Alexander. This hasn't 100% put us off using the name, as she calls her son Alex, while we would favour the nicknames Sacha/Xander, but we thought we'd just see if we could find any other names that we like as well.

This is our shortlist:
Aleksandar
Ivan
Milan
Luka
Stefan
Andrej
Leonel
Danijel

I love Milan and Aleksander - but the former is much more unusual here.

Dimitri, Zoran..?

• unusual in a good way,

I’ve only met two.

Stefan would be a great choice.

I also like Luka and Andrej.

Ilija
Jovan
Petar
Predrag

Tomas
Alexi
Andrei
Mikhail
Boris

Oleg
Sergei

Marko

Nenad
Mihajlo
Bogdan
Matija
Čedomir

Aleksander (Alek)

Vuk

Slobodan
Vladimir

Adem
Nikola
Isidor
Anton
Fillip (or is it one L?)
Sorry for my Aleksander suggestion (I’d skimmed your OP and missed that part).

Milan is my favourite on your list.

Y y Nikola!

Ilija I have a soft spot for.

Do you want a common or uncommon? I work with a lot of Serbians, and around me, the top names are Marko, Zoran, and Goran.

How about Nikola or Mirko - those at least are pronounced as they are spelled.

I think Stefan and Daniel work the best. If you're living in the UK I wound use the English spelling unless you're totally set on the Serbian o ff as it'll make his life easier not having to constantly spell his name

Filip
Marin
Viktor
Zoran
Emil
Adam

Đorđe (George)
Nikolaj
Miloš

Not Slobodan! - it is strongly associated in the UK with Milošević

Sava

Not Leonel if you already have Leonora, IMO.

My favourites are Stefan, Andrej and Luka!