Longer harsh baby names

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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!

Russell for a boy
Elizabeth for a girl

Gretchen.
Dominica
Elspeth

Maximilian
Dominic
Lars

Breda
Gretchen

Jamal
Roscoe

Maria
Clea
Julia
Lucille
Beatrix
Anna
Margaux
Maelle

Filip
Louis
Karl
Erik
Tomos
Sven
Fredrik
Henrik

Gisela
Frieda
Heidi
MariaElena
Katerina
Stefania
Rosalie

Manus
Otto
Nicholas
Justin

Karsten
Quentin

Carolina
Clara

I live in a German-speaking country. Some names I've heard recently at the library, park, etc:

Madita
Liv
Ronja
Zoé
Aurelia
Nina
Clara
Marina
Linnea

Killian
Milan
Laurin
Philip
Bruno
Samuel
Eric
Charlie

Those are the ones that seem less common. Apart from that everywhere we go there's at least one Mila, Sofia, Luca or Leon!

I like Marina, thanks!

Most of my friends have Milas, Lucas and Finns too. There's an Emi (pronounced Amy) and a little girl named Marlin, which is a lovely name but I will only ever see a fish when I look at her, poor kid!

Dana (a former colleague)

Your DH doesn't like the name because it's the name of one of his former colleagues? Ugh good luck finding a name. My OH was EXACTLY like this, and we ended up with one name and one name only and no option for the other sex!

Someone above suggested Clarissa - love that name! Also Marieka.

Natasha
Natalia
Kezia
Zena

Wilfred
Karl
Victor

Oh yes, there's a Finn in our street - I forgot that one. There used to be five Lucas at my daughter's nursery! They're down to two currently.

I used to go to a baby group that was very international and there were two Maxims (one with Brazilian parents, one not sure) and two Oscars ( Polish and South African).

I know a Jana. It's pronounced Jah Na

The only Jana I know pronounces her name like this

Petra. My name that got away.

Astrid
Aude / Ute (I know you said no German names but I love this one)
Kristin
Clarisse
Rosamund

Albert
Tobias
Frederick
Wladimir
Alexander (Sasha)

Annika
Arden
Briony
Cara
Claudine
Cordelia (or Cornelia)
Genevieve
Ginevra
Helena
Katrina (too soon?)
Minerva
Miranda
Miriam
Morven
Naomi
Renata
Sabrina
Tabitha

I was going to suggest Alaric for a boy, but I think that may be an ultra German name. Maybe some form of Patrick, Roderick, Dominic, Zachary, Bertrand, Tristan?

Benedict

Are you in the Netherlands perchance?
Beaudine
Aleida
Liselotte
Celine
Vesper
Paige
Angelique
Dutch version of Felicity is Feline, also lovely

Arabella
Arabel

Alison
Megan
Fiona
Veronica
Maggie
Gerda
Annika
Catrin
Marlene

Michael
Gabriel
Lucas
Fenn
Taran
Corin
Malachi

I like Heidi and Greta/Gretel

Roderick - Roddy is brilliant.

Agatha (Aggie)
Caroline (Caro)
Melissa (Melly)

Matilda
Mariska
Suzanne
Johanna
Rebecca
Charlotte
Erika
Marianne
Marlies
Edith
Belinda
Katja
Claudia
Petra
Saskia
Sabina
Alexandra
Gabriella

Astrid
erica
Orim
Agnes
Aster
Olive
Agnes
Agatha
Ingrid
Tessa
Frida

Eric
patrick
Jude

I think Astrid really fits the bill

Otherwise
Ingrid
Clara
Claudia
Teresa (Tess)
Sasha
Freda
Freya
Gudrun
Lina