Bjorn, Fjord or Rune?

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Hi!
Half Danish boy due soon!

We've narrowed it down to
Bjorn
Fjord
or
Rune

Please state your order of preference!
Feel free to be ruthless about any of them!

And any alternatives if you have any suggestions! :-) thanks!

I like Rune the best, but also really digging Fjord and Bjorn. Good luck.

Rune
Fjord
Bjørn

Same x

Bjorn for me. I’m not familiar with Danish names OP but I really dislike the other two, sorry.

Bjorn,
Rune (is it pronounced Roon-eh?)

but Fjord just sounds a bit silly

Isn’t Fjord a fjord, that’s a no for me

Rune makes me think of the tennis player, also Bjorn (Björn Borg)

maybe I just watch too much tennis

Definitely no to Fjord and Rune. I like Bjorn.

Love Bjorn and quite like Rune.

Never heard Fjord as a name before.

Suggestions-
Henrik
Tomas
Karl
Erik
Anders
Lars
Alexander
Kristian

Maybe look at the Olympics for the Scandinavian team names!

I like Rune. I didn't realise Fjord could be a name, I just thought it was some sort of watercourse

Is Fjord really a name, I wouldn't have thought so? Are you spelling Bjørn the Danish way? If not, it changes the pronunciation so then it's not straightforward in either language - as someone with that type of name, I would really go with something that people can spell correctly in one of his two cultures.

Rjune surely?

Fjord isn't a name, it's a thing so no for me. I know a Norwegian Rune, the R is a very Scandinavian sound that doesn't exist in English so I'd think about how you'd like that to be pronounced and whether you'd be constantly correcting.

I know more Norwegians than Danes, but of Danes I know a Magnus, Rasmus, Leif and Jonas (said like Yonas rather than hard J) as well names more common in the UK like Alexander, Frederick and Felix albeit with different pronunciation.

If I had a boy with any Scandinavian heritage I'd go for Magnus.

Magnus is a lovely name.

Rune isn't pronounced like Ancient Runes, I can't think of how to describe the R sound but the rest is oon-eh with the eh being very short. Or that's how the husband of a Norwegian friend says his name !

I love Rune

(I'm Swedish.)

Bjorn/Bjørn/Björn and Rune are great names!

I think Fjord is more of a word than a name.
I have never heard anyone being called Fjord.

I prefer Bjørn out of them. Slightly biased as I knew a Bjørn growing up and he was a big Teddy bear of a man.
I agree that Rune, while lovely, is hard for British folk to pronounce.

(I am Norwegian)

Why would you want to give your baby a name you can’t pronounce or spell properly?

Fjord isn’t a name. The D is actually silent, so it Fjor.
Bjorn also isn’t a name as you don’t have the correct letters on your keyboard to spell it properly.
If you call him Rune, the R is rolling as someone else has said and I have never heard a British person able to do that (have tried to teach my DH)

We live in the U.K. and have opted for names which work well in both UK and at home.
It’s nice not to have to repeat and spell your name 100 times to people.

Espen is nice

I like Bjorn

I know a Bjorn

Omg what is it with all the threads about ridiculous Danish names recently?

I know one Bjørn. He's an awful racist old man and I've no idea why his wife isn't divorcing him. I don't know a single Bjorn because there are only 22 in population of 6 million.

There are 79 men/boys called Fjord. I've never met one, it sounds made up.

Rune is your only sensible suggestion. There are more than 6000.

Here are names by popularity and most popular for newborns.

Ok but you need the correct letter to make it Scandinavian. They don’t exist on a British keyboard.

If Fjord is actually used as a name (like River, Lake, Brook, Rio..) then that's my favourite.

If Fjord is just a word, then Rune.

Bjorn immediately puts me in mind of ABBA.

Agree re: the mad Scandi names thread.

Surely anyone of actual baby-making age with recent Danish heritage knows that Danes are busy calling their kids Emma and William.