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Please help with boy's name, we live in German-speaking country

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viennesewhirl · 14/01/2009 20:13

I want it to be something that sounds the same whether a German or an English speaker is saying it. Theo would be pronounced "Tayo" here, for example, and George as "Gay-org" so they're no good. It cuts out a lot of possiblities - ie anything starting with or including J, W, Th, R. Our first son is called Noah. These are names I like - what do you think - and do you have any suggestions?! Thank you!

Elliot
Lev
Asher
Sol / Solomon
Constantin
Oskar
Casper

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 14/01/2009 20:27

Luka/s?

gauly · 14/01/2009 20:46

My husband is German so we went through this. We've got three girls so didn't use any boys names but these are some names that we considered or that I've heard in Germany:

Max
Alexander
Sebastian
Daniel
Tobias
Dominik
Harry
Frank
Felix
Thomas
Albert
Christian
Isaak

Ponders · 14/01/2009 20:49

My boss's wife is German; she is considering Sebastian too, he's not keen (dunno why, I was about to have a go at convincing him & we got interrupted & then he went home)

annasmami · 14/01/2009 21:42

We're in the same position (only that we live in England) and here are some names from our boys' list:

Thomas
Quentin
Dominik
Lukas
Elliot

BoffinMum · 14/01/2009 21:49

Conrad transports between the two countries very well. As does Oscar and Felix.

gauly · 14/01/2009 22:52

Some more names:

Finn, Ben, Tim, Philip, Oliver, Eric, Anton, Mark, Marcel

From your list I really like Casper and that works very well in both languages.

LynetteScavo · 14/01/2009 22:58

I love Lucas/Lukas or Oscar/Oskar.

Asher is georgous!!!!

As long as you don't go for Werner, you should be fine.

daisy5 · 14/01/2009 23:08

I like Tobias which works as Toby in the UK

daisy5 · 14/01/2009 23:08

I like Tobias which works as Toby in the UK

MrsSeanBean · 14/01/2009 23:12

Mattias

SwedesInACape · 14/01/2009 23:13

Oskar is lovely.

I also absolutely adore the name Otto.

LynetteScavo · 14/01/2009 23:19

Oh Otto is lovely - and goes well with Noah, IMO.

Shitemum · 14/01/2009 23:20

some friends of ours have an Otto and a Luka, father is german, mother Spanish.

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MrsSeanBean · 14/01/2009 23:25

Otto has good form - as in von Bismarck.

And doesn't Claudia Schiffer have a Caspar?

Tinker · 14/01/2009 23:27

Posted to say Otto and it's there already
Love Tobias.
Markus (is it with a k in German?)

Buckets · 15/01/2009 10:33

Kurt
Andreas
Rudi

blueshoes · 15/01/2009 10:49

Some food for thought. I am not sure how these are pronounced in German:

Alexander
Carsten
Christian (love this)
Daniel
Dirk
Florian
Frank
Franz
Frederik
Olaf
Oliver
Philip
Wolfgang

Lionstar · 15/01/2009 10:53

I know an English (but lives in Germany) Thaddeus (Tad-ey-us) with Teddy as a nickname, I think it's fab.

Also love Oskar, Lukas, Markus and Asher

MrsSeanBean · 15/01/2009 13:27

Thaddeus is a good one, I like that.

bran · 15/01/2009 13:30

Kai
Moritz

gauly · 15/01/2009 14:38

Just remembered another English/German family and they have Tristan so I guess that works too.

LBsmum · 15/01/2009 14:48

My english friend has had two children in Germany and concious of pronoucation has named her son Oliver and daughter Zara

Buckets · 15/01/2009 17:10

Laurents

blueshoes · 15/01/2009 17:19

bran, interesting about 'Kai'. From 'kaiser'? Is there an English equivalent?