Longer harsh baby names

[StamppotAndGravy]

We're stuck for inspiration. Please help!

I like quite harsh sounding baby names but DH so far isn't keen e.g.
Siân (my favourite, but rejected as common)
Margaret (boring)
Jana (our best friend)
Dana (a former colleague)

The only name he really likes so far is Juliette, but to me it's dated and fussy, plus I find Jools and July are awful. I'm going to propose Jacqueline and Annette as alternatives, but was hoping for some more ideas.

Extra complexity, we live abroad in a Germanic country. J names are pronounced with a Y or the French way, never the British way. Gs are risky pronounciation-wise. Es are pronounced A, and As are long and flat (e.g. Jana is Yaanaa, Eline is Aeleena). Most of the top hundred baby names are max 5 letters so anything fussy like Felicity will scream immigrant kid!

Thanks so much!

We've completely and utterly failed at boys names, so if anyone's got any ideas there, it would be much appreciated. I like Ian and Matthew but they're boring. Cedric is the closest we've got.

Kevin
Brian
Keith
Alan
Bernard
Gary
Trevor

Greta
Gina

Not Jacqueline if you live in a Germanic country. It’s considered the stereotypical “chav” girls name (in Germany at least)

Nina?

Nina Mina Lina?

The one German child I know is called Lily.

Dominique
Antionette
Adrienne
Andreena
Natalie

Dagmar

@StamppotAndGravy , harsh seems a strange description of the names you've listed.
I think what you mean is stronger-sounding names - not so vowelly as the currently popular ones (Olivia, Amelia, Ava, Isabella, Lily etc).

I'd look at names from about the 1935 to 1965. Patricia, Barbara and the like.

Hester

Maximilian
Alexander

Claudia
Beate
Susanne (pronounced the German way)
Christina or Christobelle

Boys;
Stephen
Greg / Gregory / Gregore
Ivan
Frank / Franklin
Wulfric
Wilfric / Wilfred / William
Oscar
Otto
Harold
Hubert
Harvey

Girls names
Petra
Lucinda
Sadie
Frances
Harriet
Philomena
Phillippa
Primrose
Daisy
Edelweiss
Chloe
Charlotte
Claudia

I certainly would say Sian was common (at the moment) A baby Sian would be very refreshing nowadays. However I also would say it was harsh. It’s very gentle sounding to my ears.

Constance.
Veronica.
Judith.
Alison
Brenda.
Deborah.
Catherine.
Ruth.
Adrienne.

Franklin.
Victor.
Edward
David

Antonia
Sabrina
Angelica
Veronica
Sybil
Colette
Ottillie
Annelise
Ines

Leonard
Gabriel
Bruno
Stellan
Daniel
Conrad
Edmund

Gretchen
Salome
Vivien
Matilda
Natasha
Magdalena

Ansel
Morvan
Vincent
Bastian
Otto
Maximilian

Nicolette.
Charlotte.
Annette
Colette

Jonathan.
Donald.

What's a Germanic country that isn't Germany? Like Austria and Switzerland?

I've seen that used on here to describe non-Ella type names with quite hard sounds, so it seemed the clearest description. I like strong too, but that seems more a personality thing. I guess I want a name you can climb a tree in :)

DH actually used the word chavvy. I grew up in the Midlands where it wasn't a chavvy name at all, but he's from the North West where it seems to have completely different connotations.

I actually love Keith, but I think it might count as mean these days :D

Leon
Rebecca/becca
August
Gregory/Gregor
Ivan
Victor
Laurence/Lars

It's not too common in NL, but probably a grandma name in a non-cool way. It's funny how things are different around. Jessica is out because it's too chavvy in French, despite counting as an English classic, and I might as well call the kid Bertha as Elizabeth here. It's getting a foreign surname and I'm not going to call it Nora or Lisa, so it'a already going to sound quite obviously immigrant.

There was a card for a baby Doris on the board at the midwife. That one doesn't seem to have come back in the UK yet!

Kirsten
Eric

I can't imagine finding a Keith sexy. it makes me think of Keith Joseph and Keith Richards.
I get what you mean but 'harsh' to me implies an ugly, mean sounding name.
I can picture a Nancy, Doris or Greta climbing a tree. I picture a Verity being a people pleaser.

For a boy: Dennis or Gordon

How about some names that work in English and German?

Heidi
Clara
Anna
Nina (as PP suggested - great name)

Carl
Max
Felix
Leon