German and English boy's names

[Phobicmum]

Hi all,

My son was born nearly a month ago and we still haven't chosen his name. It needs to work in both German and English which is the big stumbling block.

We like Otis, Raphael, Flynn, Magnus (Gus), Hugo and Jago but all of them I still have reservations about. Has anybody got any ideas of names that we might like that would work in both languages?

Hugo for example is a cocktail in Germany.
Magnus sounds a bit like "Ich mag Nüsse"...

Thanks

(Is it German, though?) Thought it was Icelandic?

James in German speaking switz where I am would be pronounced cha-mess.
Finn,.raphael, elias, Florian are nice.
Andreas, daniel and christian are a bit old fashioned.

James is Ya-mess

Fabian or Florian.

@MrsSkylerWhite
It’s Latin, but also popular in Northern Europe (UK - most common in Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, etc)

Thanks for the suggestions and the input! So helpful to hear from people who live in Germany/are German. I really like Henrik, Florian and Fabian but my partner vetoed all of them. I also really like Nico (even though that is very popular in Germany!)

I am massively overthinking every single option and the weird associations that I am making with each name, like the Ich mag Nüsse thing, are meaning I can't choose. I presume you forget these things once you have picked a name! So many people are asking daily what he is called. We really need to decide.

Alexander
Ingo
Fulk
Karl
Alfred
Markus
Ludwig
Maximilian
Patrick

Arlo?

Albert
Eric / Erik

I love Hugo

Hi PhobicMum, I know what you mean - and you've got your own weird associations but also the associations that Germans will make on hearing the name. Calling your son Julius (you-lee-us) or Maximilian or Theo makes it sound like he's from a -how can I put this - more educated and traditional background, while someone called Fabian has Green-voting parents and goes to a forest nursery, and an Ingo sounds like he's a 40-year-old unemployed Bild reader who drinks cheap beer in the morning. People don't think of Germany as being such a class based society, but it comes out really clearly in the names.

I like Leon but I think it's very popular and maybe not considered very classy can't think of a nice way to put it in Germany?

My half German ds is Christopher. Christof would be a bit more Germanic , but his name has never caused any pronunciation problems .
I am a teacher and also know half German - Leo , Bastian , Felix , Joshua and Benjamin.