Spanish/English boys names

[chica666]

Dh is Spanish, I'm English, and we live in Spain. We've got loads of girl's names that we love, and that would be easy to pronounce in both languages. But, we're having more trouble with boy's names. Either an English name that will not be totally mispronounced here, and that we won't have to spell out all the time, or a Spanish name that the English family can wrap their tongues around without too much trouble. Any suggestions?

[Maveta]

Hi Pillock!

also see a couple of my suggestions were made already [pout] will have to think some more.. I like Theo but said the spanish way ´Teo´ like someone else said already. The biggest thing for us that it had to be pronounced more or less the same in both languages otherwise a lovely name in one gets butchered in the other.

Tis hard..

[mrsruffallo]

I love Rene too

[msappropriate]

I know 2 Spanish/English boys who live in Spain. One is called Daniel which works and one is called Jacob which causes a few problems.

[SenoraParsnip]

max and alex don't really work in spanish though. but I do like Ale (pronounced Al-eh) the short form of Spanish Alejandro. and i nearly called ds1 xavier, but all my family insisted on using the x-men pronunciation (x-avier)

but how about Rafael/Raf? sam? tom? Lucas? Isaac?

[Shitemum]

Mario, short for Mariano

[mom2latinoboys]

I'm American my dh is Mexican

We have a Mateo Robert and a Cruz Patrick.

We figured that Spanish names with English middle names represents our family well.

You could also do.

Marco
Antonio
Alfonso
Javier
Sergio
Israel

[itwasntme]

Raphael

ruben

[onebatmother]

Rafael is very lovely, as is Tomas.

< at MrsR's gall >

[1066andallthat]

¿David?
¿Alonso?
¿Lucas?
¿Marcos?
¿Daniel?
¿Jose/Joseph?

[Maveta]

SenoraParsnip - both of those were names given to their boys by parents who were both spanish! lol so I guess for some they do work..

[lokka]

senoraparsnip - I teach in Madrid and many of the young Alejandro's ask me to call them Alex so I think times are a changing!

I also like Samuel(Sam) and they have no problems with that!

[macaco]

Samuel
Nicolás
Alejandro
David
Daniel
Oscar
Tomas
Raúl
Ramón
Marcos
Lucas
Zacarias

The n there are all the ones which are spanish but pronounceable enough in English.

[belgo]

I like Tiago

[ib]

Yup, Max and Alex definitely work in Spanish, in the sense that they don't get butchered, in fact are pronounced exactly the same (that's my definition of working)

[ska]

my sisters boys are
daniel, david and benjamin.
she is english and her husband is carribean spanish speaking all live in usa
i love miguel for a boy

[MichelleBarton]

I love the spanish name Jesus pronounced 'Hesous' - but try calling your son that in the UK!!! We would never get away with it!