Quirky names that work in German

[JulieBindelHasAKindle]

Dp is German and I’m English and we are currently living in Italy but will be moving to the UK in the next 18 months. We’ve decided on Aloisa for a girl but are struggling to decide on a boys name. I always wanted to call my child Jude if they were a boy but it’s inappropriate in German. Names we like are as followed:

Karl (but it’s quite popular in Germany and I worry people will think of Marx)
Mies (dp wants this as it’s a family name however I don’t think it works in English)
Egon (I like but dp thinks it sounds too much like Elon)
Rainer (we both like but think it sounds tol American)
Wolf (we both like but worry it’s too ‘weird’ in English)

Names we can’t use: Otto, Rex, Rafael

Dieter
Clement (I know an Anglo German couple with a son with this name)
Florian is really nice, I think, particularly in a German accent

Reiner is lovely and I don't actually mind Wolf, but in the UK Wolf sounds super unusual unlike in Germany. I think Nico and Andrè are lovely but maybe they're overdone already in your DH home country. Rueben is another name I like because I love the nickname Roo. The girls name you've chosen is really really lovely btw.

@KirstenBlest said rye-ner.

*Rainer

@JulieBindelHasAKindle , I know it is but people in the UK with read it as Rain-er.

Tobias is just beyond cute 😍 and could be shortened to Toby for use in the UK if you wanted

oskar

Kai
Sven is also a German name
Linus
Emil
Otto
Felix

@Echobelly Ooh I love Clement, I haven’t met many in Germany or Britain so I reckon dp would approve.

Ernst/Ernest

Karl Marx link wouldn’t be a problem.. You could spell it as Carl?

freidrich
Kurt
Hans
Fritz
Fabio
Filip

Lars

Not German as such, but Lucien or Florian could work

Is Mies pronounced “Meez”?

I think that in the UK people might think it was a typo for “Miles”. It’s an interesting one though and easy to explain that it’s a family name. But to me it doesn’t feel like a name, if that makes sense - can you hear yourself saying “oh I just need to change Mies’ nappy?” (It’s also a bit tricky when you have an ‘s like that.), or “Hi Fred, do you want to come to the park with Mies and me?”

Otto!

@RoadSignFool , It's pronounced Meece.

@RoadSignFool Mies is pronounced meese (rhymes with geese). Is Miles particularly popular in the UK at the moment? I don’t know any Miles’s however I don’t really know any small children.

I like Oskar, my DS has a classmate with that name and spelling (German Mum).

Wolf is a bit too “comedy German”, I can just hear all the British people going “Voolf! in a cod German accent. Would you say it with a W or B sound when speaking English?

Sorry, W or V?

@RoadSignFool we would use the German pronunciation, dp is quite keen but that is my concern. I feel like it’s very stereotypically German.

Reiker?

I would read Mies as Mays.

Emil
Marcus
I've met one Timon in Germany

Bruno
Kiefer
Lothar
Johann

Suggestions: Ludo(vic), Emil, Rudy, Tobias (Tob-ee-as), Jonas, Leo(n), Matteo, Peter, Frank, Bruno. Not sure if they really are German or dated/overused.