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Dutch / scandi names that work in English?

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Catlikereactions · 18/06/2023 10:36

Dutch / scandi names that work in English?

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Northbright · 18/06/2023 10:37

Anna, Karolina, Astrid, Lena

Catlikereactions · 18/06/2023 10:44

Should have added… boy names! Having a boy.

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Northbright · 18/06/2023 10:54

Ah right! Maybe those not so good!

Joachim, Nikolas, Stian, Kristian, Tomas

RedRiverSun · 18/06/2023 11:00

Magnus, Jonas, Anders

midsomermurderess · 18/06/2023 12:56

Saskia; Elke; Ingrid; Frey(J)a; Liv; Annika; Linnea; Alva; Ebbe; Thora.

RobertsRadio · 18/06/2023 12:58

Mathias, Sven, Gunther, Boris.

DuchessOfSausage · 18/06/2023 13:13

No idea what's considered dated but Jens, Dries, Mats, Mees, Sven, Lars, Magnus

Ahna65 · 18/06/2023 13:18

Casper, Pim, Daan, Hans, Ruben, Bas

TheDonsDingleberries · 18/06/2023 17:18

Aart
Bram
Jan
Tobias
Johannes
Erik
Bastiaan
Tygo
Julius
Kai
Pieter
Ivo
Hendrik
Casper
Viggo
Dirk

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 18/06/2023 17:23

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Crikeyalmighty · 18/06/2023 17:24

They use Tomas, Casper and Christian a fair bit

ParklifePenguin · 18/06/2023 17:34

Based on Frozen (!) Anna and Elsa! Christoph(er)

Bloodyhelldog · 18/06/2023 17:46

Assuming your some kind of Scandi/Dutch (!?), do consider how much you want to hear the name mangled regularly before committing to a truly 'foreign' name rather than a more universal name with roots elsewhere. Get a few English speaking people to say the name before you commit, it would be unfortunate to discover you absolutely hate the way English people say it after the fact (for me, this broadly rules out any of the 'Johan' family!). And if you're not a native speaker, please get someone else to tell you the pronunciation so you don't end up with a Leif pronounced Leaf or something.

I would also say some of the suggestions (Pim, I'm looking at you) work in English only so far as they're broadly pronounceable.

Daniel, Stefan, Patrik, Thomas, Fredrik, Marcus, Oskar, Alexander, Christian, William, Tobias, Axel, Josef...are all the sort of names that actually 'work'. I also ruled out Erling but Erling Haaland has probably made that feasible!

Longdarkcloud · 18/06/2023 22:37

What about Anders?

user1492757084 · 20/06/2023 06:35

I would go with strong adventurous names ..
Henry
Dirk
Willem
Abel
Tasman
Arnhem
Frederick
Jacob
Cornelis

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 28/06/2023 22:17

Remco

sewerrat · 28/06/2023 22:25

Erik

NuffSaidSam · 28/06/2023 22:27

I don't think Dirk works in English, not really.

peaceinourtime · 29/06/2023 01:52

Leif

peaceinourtime · 29/06/2023 01:54

& NB its pronouned Layf

RosemaryRosemary · 30/06/2023 22:58

Bastian

RosemaryRosemary · 30/06/2023 23:00

Ruben
Hugo
Florian
Sander
Willem

BadGranny · 30/06/2023 23:02

Soren

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