Scandinavian Names

[HowFastIsTooFast]

Very early to be thinking of names as we're still TTC but I guess it doesn't hurt to know we're at least on the same page as each other.

DP has Scandinavian heritage and surname so I'd like to honour that at least by using the Scandi spelling of relatively common names.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Theodor
Oskar

Mathilda
Sofia
Silvia (this one has a family connection for me too)

Sadly the two boys names I've always loved are both ruled out as one is a derivative of my XH's surname and the other is DP's name!

Freja
Alma
Kamilla
Kathrine

Karl
Jakob

All common, nice and neutral names and easy to pronounce all around

Instead of Sofia you could add Sofie - much more scandinavian than Sofia

Astrid

Magnus?

They'll spend their lives having to spell the name as people will get it 'wrong'. Just go with the anglicised spelling if you live in the UK.

Hilda
Astrid
Johanna

Sven
Steffen
Sigmund

Which Scandinavian country is he from? They aren't all the same. Better to look for names from the actual country your DH is from.

I love the name Astrid... google it OP, lots of beautiful names to choose from... make sure tho you get pronunciation correct. I've lots of foreign family who go for heritage names but put there own pronunciation on it...when the come for holiday with very locally recognisable names, they think it is quaint & cute how we 'say it wrong'! Em...no! So, if going for heritage name...make sure you pronounce it correctly...

Love scandi names, I like Soren and Ingrid

Johanna is so pretty and very cool for a girl.

Magnus is a strong name.

Anneke, Freya, and Ingrid are also very Scandinavian.

Lars? If you watch some scandi programmes, you can get ideas from there. I like how they pronounce names differently, eg, patrick is potrik.

I'm Scandinavian, it really does matter which country your dh is from, we have different names .

Thanks all; Yep we are looking at names from his home country but as a lot of friends use Mumsnet and nobody knows we're TTC I've had to go a bit stealth here

Ps.. I didn't like Astrid at first but it's growing on me after all these suggestions. Added to the list of potentials.

Axel
Casper
Emil
Esben
Finn
Halden
Jakob
Jonas
Josef
Lief
Odin
Olsen
Onni
Raul
Sven
Tem

Dahlia
Elin
Elsa
Greta
Hanne
Freya
Juni
Kari
Laila
Laris
Lotte
Mari
Mette
Mia
Nora
Norell
Oletha
Paley
Rhetta
Roselen
Signe
Soley
Svea
Thora
Tonje
Uzma
Vidle

Theodor(e) and Sofia are my favourites from your list! Both lovely.

Will the baby be having the Scandi surname?

Henrik.

We have a Henrik. It's a lovely name but we (and later on, he) are always having to spell it for people!!

Astrid and Freya are brilliant names.

Other suggestions (disclaimer, I am not Scandinavian although I wish I was): Toril, Karin, Kristin for a girl.

Per is nice for a boy

This site might help you: www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Main_Page

Annika
Laila

I love Greta

@peachypetite

Will the baby be having the Scandi surname?

The surname is a bit of an issue. I would love he/she to have DP's Scandi surname as it's lovely, but since we're not married I've had lots of advice to give baby my surname for now at least.

Problem is I still have my XH's surname and I hate my maiden name (which is why I haven't changed back). I guess I could change my name by deed-poll to match DP's? I've known others to do this when they're planning to get married eventually but not until after kids.

That is awkward! I was just asking because my husband is also from a European country and we have made a decision to not give the baby a first name from that country too because it will have the surname, and I want my heritage to be reflected too, could be something to consider. Are registry offices operating yet?

@peachypetite Yes I believe they are, or will be fairly soon. We're still on first cycle of TTC though so plenty of time! :)

DP has said he's happy for us to slide off to the registry office and get married with no fuss if I wanted to; he knows that I want to be with him (thus the baby-making) but am not into the idea of a big wedding after the disaster my first marriage became. Something to think about at least!

I used dp surname before we were married because like you I had awful exh surname

We were always planning on marrying and if we hadn’t u would have changed my name by deedpoll instead

Don’t give your baby your exh name

It makes sense. I would always advocate marriage first, like you say it doesn’t have to be a big white wedding!!