Looking for boy/girl names that work in English and in German

[GermanMummy]

I'm German, DH is English, and our first baby (don't know if it's a boy or a girl) is due in a couple of weeks. Still haven't been able to agree on names though.

We'd like a name that works in English as well as in German with the same pronunciation and spelling - not too common but not too unusual/complicated either.

I like Felix, but DH thinks it reminds him of the cat. Also like Ricarda, but DH's market research revealed that people in England find that too unusual.

Both like Lucas and maybe Charlotte.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Kristina...Ricarda would be a girls name in germany, too...Ricardo is the boys version....

Oh, and I like Ricarda...but then, I suppose that might be because I am german, lol

Marvin is so not old fashioned! Very Cool IMO.

Lucas is fabulous.

Lynette....I always lked Marvin....but otehr ppeople, brittish one always pulled a face about it...so never braved it.....which is silly, because obvioulsy especially Yannic is receiving some raised eyebrows anyway, lol

Fabio

Lucas is great. What about Frederick? I have a brother called Marwynn - it's a bit Welsh but my mum chose it and she's German.

Lucas is nice but has become too popular/common imo....

Ricarda is very nice, though and would sound nice in German and English. I would use that for a girl - very pretty.

Other boys names that I think might work in both languages include Fabian, Patrick, Quentin, Conrad and Dominik.

Astrid

Asta ?

little girl i know with a german mother and english father is Katja - pronounced Katya?
quite like it myself. no idea at all whether its traditional or not though

MIL's sister is called Katinka. We all call her Tinka- its a lovely name.
their father was german

Marijka is Dutch / Geman pronounced ma-ri-ka or ma-ree-ka this is my name but we pronounce it ma-ray-ka middle name also Aneliese

I've always loved Katya.

my children have/had classmates (in Bayern) called Vanessa, Jessica, Carina, Nicole, Annina, Anna (v popular), Aileen, Jasmine, Hannah, Fransiska, Verena, Laura, Veronika, Kerstin, Elizabeth, Philina, Lisa, Cristina, Philomena, Annaliese, Tanya, Julia, Annalina, Sophie, Nina

Lukas, Luka (both popular), Marcel, Simon (v popular), Jan, Kevin, Leon, Stanley, Dominic, Andreas, Martin, Maximilian, Henrik, Manuel, Josef, Adrian, Leonhardt, Jakob, Erik, Dennis, Fabian, Florian, Thomas, Nikolas

whatever you do, don't call your Kid Kerstin....it's my name and I loath it....and it is slightly different pronounced in english and german, anyway....

Sophie
Anya/Anja
Verena
Katya/Katja
Astrid

Conrad
Marius
Paul
Leo
Martin
Julius
Felix

Claudia
Stefan
Can't think of any more, sorry!

Leo
Leon
Leonie

The Germans I deal with through work - Alexander, Oliver, Thomas, Martin, Karl and Moritz (very male dominated industry!) - could almost all be equally British.

I like Felix and Marcus for a boy.

Every family I know that is half English and half anything else seems to have a Lucas.

I like Greta or Claudia for a half german girl.

ps Patrick/Patrik and Frederick/Frederik are also great names, love them.

ys, who is a Flynn was almost a Frederic....but whenever I said what we planned to call him people would either pull a face or they would be totally pro the name but shorten it immediately to Fred or Freddy....the pulling faces ddn't bother me, but the shortening of the name put me off immediately, sigh....