Danish boy name ideas

[miriamsalt]

Hello!
We're due our DS VERY soon, and would love to give him a Danish/Scandinavian name to match our heritage.
Can anyone recommend some ideas?
At the moment, we like Esben, Kasper and Ansel - any tho

.continued, posted half my message for some reason!
Any thoughts on Esben, Kasper and Ansel?
Any recommendations for other Scandi names for boys?

Thanks!

I like Esben and Kasper.. don't like Ansel sorry.

Esben is my favourite of your choices.

We almost used Kasper for our DS but he didn't quite suit it in the end. I still love it, though. We had Caspian, too, though not Danish. I also liked Karsten, Elias, Leif, Soren and Viggo.

My Danish friend's son is Axel.

I like Kasper & Ansel.

Kasper is my favourite of your ideas 😊

Do you like -
Henrik
Lars
Soren
Nikolai
Erik

Holger

Knut

Torsten.

Dislike Ansel.

Marcus? Alexander?

I like Ansel only, and I like it very much.

What about Magnus

Jonas, Aksel, Mikael?

Feel like with Lars a lot of non rhotic English speakers would not pronounce the r? It would be Lahs? I'm not a Danish speaker though so maybe that's right!

Esben, Kasper, and Ansel are all good names!

Axel/Aksel is a good name, too!

Some other ideas

Torkel or Torben (old Norse names, connected to Thor)
Bjorn (Bjørn), means "bear"
Viggo
Preben
Mads
Knud

How much would it annoy you if Esben is pronounced with a hard b?

Jesper
Magnus
Elias
Søren
Morten

Here you go. Scroll down for the 50 most popular boys names in Denmark.

https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/borgere/navne/navne-til-nyfoedte

Esbjorn

Not quite sure what you mean - is it not pronounced ESS-BEN?

Love Magnus but English people pronounce it so wrong 😅

Eek, may be a bit too brave!

My Danish friend is called Jorn. Pronounced Yorn of course.

@miriamsalt , I love it. Knut the Polar Bear.
Thor is good too.

Rasmus

No, not in Danish, the B is much softer, almost like a P

We have a Henrik. It does get misspelt a lot, but generally not too hard to pronounce!