German boys names

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Would love some suggestions on German boys names that work well in English. I generally like short and snappy over long and flowing but open to anything.

Kurt or Curt
Lorenz
Ralf
Rudi
Felix

Yes I wondered the same.
The names on my list are all to my taste but not very obviously German!
I do like Tobias, too - how German is that?!

Torsten
Frank
Hans (like France)

Looove Otto but I know so many dogs with that name 🤣

I've always liked Florian.
Albrecht is cool, but maybe too obviously German

Dennis
Phillip
Michael

To be honest almost any German name works in English

Otto
Sebastian
Max
Felix
August

The pronunciation can sometimes be an issue.

No one has mentioned Wolf? Dh has a great German friend called Wolf.

And I think there are a couple of sounds that some English speakers can’t get - from memory I think the German ch sound can be difficult; possibly some of the vowels with umlauts as well

Dieter
Gunter
Ludwig ( Ludwig)
Johan ( Johan)
Sebastian
Clause
Wolfgang
Franz

I would say very purely based on the fact that it’s my relatives name 😂

That was in response to you. I

I think Rudi is super cool but I’d worry that he’d get English kids making ‘rude’ jokes or sth?

A lot of these are lovely but we live in uk atm and I know they will 100% be mispronounced. Doesn’t matter with eg max as has both English and German pronunciation but weird with eg Jens that’ll just be wrong all the time. Already has a German surname that is the bane of our life here as no one can pronounce or spell it so want to spare him from having same issue with first name.

A few names from friends who have to make names work in several languages:
Emil
Lukas
Rafael
Tim
Nick
John
Ben
Max
Will (for Wilhelm)
Alex
Markus

I would stay away from Dieter and Karl-Heinz 🤣

Tom
Ben
Max
Leo
Noah
Oscar
Daniel

These would probably be my first choices if he has a German surname but you want a less German sounding first name that neither UK or German folk wouldn't find unusual/hard to say.
I'm a bit biased as I love the German language.

Thomas is also an international name

I don’t get the love for Otto. It always makes me think of Ernst Jandl’s poem “Ottos Mops”.

I meant more the names which are spelled the same but spoken differently....
David - Dayvid versus Dahvid
Jonas - Joenass versus Yonas
Robert - Rawbert versus Rohbert
Benjamin - Benjamin versus Benyamiin
Maybe I've not explained very well....

Jens that’ll just be wrong all the time
I thought it was pronounced Yens. Jensen is popular though and gets shortened to Jens with a J sound.

Jonah etc will sound different.
Tobias will be Tob-ee-as/Tob-eye-as

Lothar. I know it has an 'h' that is not sounded, but so does Thomas, for example. Otherwise, it's very easy for the UK.

I quite like Frantz.

PS As a Scottish person I have no issue with ch or sch but my 'sehr' and 'sehe' sound far too similar!

I do love Otto although I also do think of Otto Frank.