Danish boys? / Scandinavian-ish

[emmalinewre]

Hi!
Our DS is due soon and we'd love to honour his dad's heritage by using a Danish/Swedish/somewhat Scandinavian (or nod to, at least) name.
Would love some ideas!
Sadly Rasmus, Henrik, Soren, Jesper are all taken! 😔

I'm 1/8 Danish and my grandpa was called Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff. Try Hooby for short? xx good luck babe

@Emanwenym Bror is lovely. As is Fred. But both are weird in terms of pronunciation in English. The closest might be

Bror: Br-OO-r OO as in c-OO-l
Fred: Fr-EI-d EI as in w-EIR-d (a long vowel as opposed to the clipped 'e' in Fred in English)

I'm wracking my brain for phonhemes which might make the right vowel sound, but there aren't any 😬

@WomanIsTaken , I don't think many names from other languages work in English.
I cut and pasted from the full names of about 3 very famous Swedes all born about 75 yrs ago.
I'd struggle to transcribe them but here's my attempt
Bror - Broo with a R on the end, one syllable
Fred - Free-ud (long one syllable)
Per - like Père in french but with scottish R
Hans - (Swedish) Hanz, (Danish) Hence
Mats - Mattz
Sven - Sven
Göran -YourRan

(I'm not Swedish, Danish or English)

@emmalinewre ,Magnus suits your brief IMO.
Latin-origin, works in different cultures, not weird etc. It does sound different in English and Danish but not a big issue IMO.

@Emanwenym I did think the list was more than a coincidence, but couldn't place Bror . Your pronunciation guide is impressive! The 'ör' in Göran is like 'ur' in fur though, but since S-GE achieved some kind of adopted national treasure status, I don't think it's correctable.

Elias
Lukas
Bengt
Åker
Edvin
Viktor
Joachim
Jonas

Sorry yes, as is the one in Bjorn. - sort of like yearn with a B in front.
(they were BU, BA,S-GA,HCA and a few were the names of people I've worked with)

One said Gothenberg was Yeu-teh-boh-ree
(He was really cute, and said Ick-ay-ah was for people setting up their first home and was slightly bemused by the appeal of it)