What do you think of Hansie?

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I've always really liked the name Hansie.

Do you think it's ok for an English boy - no Scandinavian or Dutch links etc.

Also I'm not keen on nicknames as official names, would you put Johan or Johannes on the birth cert. even though I don't love either of them?

Never heard of it before.

How do you pronounce it? DOn't like the sound of it tbh. Might be rhymed with pansy by teasing kids?

Hans is fine for a boy, but not Hansie! It's far too much like Pansie/hankie.

Ah, yes, Hans is good.

interesting x-post re. pansy!

A no from me, sorry. I like Jan though.

not nice

Hansie sounds a bit effeminate to me and IMHO suited to a family with some cultural links to the language of origin given that it is very German-sounding.

Hansie the pansie?

That's just mean

Hansie is totally and utterly very popular German name for.... Budgies! So if you are expecting a bird, go for it - a boy, noooooo!

How about the Welsh "Ioan"? Pronounced yo-hann.

It does rhyme with pansey - hadn't thought of that - duh I know

Ok and he could never be taken seriously in Germany...

I'm not from the UK, I hadn't thought of it as unheard of over here. Don't you all remember Hansie Cronje

Handsy - means a bloke who's free with the groping. Not good.

I thought Hansie Cronje, the South African cricketer who was shamed, and has since died (relatively young I think).

Seems a strange name to pick if you have no family/cultural reasons for picking it?

I like Hans (but am Dutch and it is my dad's name) but am not sure about Hansie. It sounds very effiminate and I think the poor child would get teased. Sorry.

For me it's a very South African name, and an Afrikaans rather than English-speaking one. Not sure you'd be doing your son any favours giving him a name like that if you're not culturally connected to the name.

I had a friend at school whose parents, recently arrived from England when he was born, named him Sarel - a very Afrikaans name, so that he would 'fit in with the local children'. But since he always lived in Enlish-speaking areas, he was teased endlessly.

He now calls himself Max.

Well my first thought was "like Hansie Cronje, former South African cricketer" and thought you maybe had South African links (or maybe German/Dutch). Hansie Cronje was Hansie short for Johannes by the way.

I think in this country it could be considered a bit effeminate, or at the least unusual. What other boys' names do you like?

I did first hear the name in South Africa when I lived there, I think you lose perspective of a name when you know a few blockey men called Hansie - I never saw it as effeminate.

I quite like Tristan & Keir too. Can see from the feedback that Hansie probably doesn't work in the UK too well.

I can see that in SA Hansie would def not be considered effeminate. Out of your other two suggestions, I think Keir would be less "poncey" and a bit more masculine than Tristan.

As soon as I read it I just though "Hansie's attatched to your armies" has loads of cruel nickname potential.

Why not go for Hans? That is a well known name in english speaking countries.

Or Johan or Jonas.

Anything ending is "ie" sounds like a girls name.

Yeah, to me it sounds SAn Afrikaans, but in SA it would be pronounced "hun-sie" rather than "han-sie".

Ooh, Keir is lovely go with that. Was on my list but DP didn't like it.

It sounds a bit like a hand-warming device.

Try our new Hansies!!

Sorry....

LOl @ handwarming device...I can see it on Dragons den now....

I might go for Johann instead - what do you think the chances are of a lot of people pronouncing it Joanne though?

Or is Johann well enough known for that not to be a worry.

Thanks for the feedback btw, very helpful