Danish names

[tyler80]

OH is Danish, I'm English but with Welsh/Irish ancestry. I'd like something that works in both languages, though more from a pronunciation point of view than spelling. In my experience quite a lot of Danish names look straightforward but are almost impossible to pronounce correctly as an English speaker.

Looking for names for boys and girls at this stage.

Surname is very Danish but reasonably common in the UK, 2 syllables

Erik
Ingrid

My Danish friends are Sara, Betina, Lene, Freja, Trude, Ann (Anna & Annika), Hanne, Elsebeth & Ida for girls and Jens, Anders, Kasper, Daniel, Benji (his full name might be Benjamin?), Jakob, Kristian & Silas for the blokes.

Any of those any good?

Didn't realise how many Danes I had on FB!

A lot of those names are already within the family.

Not keen on stuff like Daniel and Kristian which are identical or very similar to the English

Annelise
Sofie
Charlotte
Kristen
Kristina
Laura
Annette
Mina
Emma
Kathrina
Caroline
Freya
Caryn
Nadia
Marianne

Jakob
Paul
Aron
Hendrik
Anton
Ivar
John
Jeremias
Marius
Martinu s
Niles
Oliver
Peter
Soren
Samson

Lots of those names I like, Charlotte is really pretty in Danish and I like Jakob too but the former would just be pronounced as in English and the latter as Jacob which is what I want to avoid.

My Danish reading book is soren and mette and i like both but Soren normally has a slashed o, and want to avoid the Danish alphabet for logistical reasons, and half the females in that side of the family are mette.

Other family names ruled out
Katrina
Kristina
Julie
Lotte
Lisabet
Caryn
Hanne

Karsten
Kasper
Kurt
Oliver
Jens

Dd has a Danish friend called Clara.. Her family are

Christian
Emilie
Cecilie
Frederik
Emma
Emil
Karen
Mathilde
Victor

Anders

Anneke

Would also appreciate if there are names to avoid, only associated with old men etc.

Agnethe/ Agnete/Agnetha
Anika
Anja
Anna
Antonia
Astrid
Birgitte
Cille
Dagmar
Else
Elva
Frida
Gret e
Hanne/ Johanne
Helle
Lovise
Malene
Maren
Pernille
Mathilde

Aksel/ Axel
Albert
Albin
Benedikte
Bo
Gunnar
Hagen/ Haakon
Ib (form of Jacob)
Jannick
Jesper
Klemens
Lorens
Niels
Olaf/ Olav/ Amhlaibh
Raghnall (Irish from Viking era)
Somhairle (Irish -- refers to Vikings)
Torsten
Urban

Some of these might be general Scandinavian or German.

Ooh, I'd forgot about Maren. Like it because people can't try and make it into an English name but it's not hard to say.

Only found one baby name finder which you can select Danish as an origin - thought you might want a link - www.thechildrensmutual.co.uk/expecting-a-baby/baby-name-finder.aspx

Here's the Norwegian name stats, the names will be similar:

www.ssb.no/navn/

Matilda(g) and Melde(b) (pron melder)

I think the girl's name

Malin

is absolutely beautiful. So elegant.

Boys...um...

Henrik? Or is that Swedish?

Malin is nice but is very typically Swedish. Prefer something Danish rather than just Scandinavian.

Are you wanting identifiably Danish but pronounceable in English? Or the other way? Or common in both languages?

My preference would be a name that isn't identical or similar to an English name, so people don't just assume it's an English name spelt strangely or just use an English pronunciation, e.g. Charlotte.

Don't mind if the pronunciation isn't immediately obvious to an English speaker just as long as it's possible, so this rules out names like Dorte which is very very difficult for an English speaker.

I met a little boy on a plane once called Onni which I believe is Scandanavian (not sure which bit) and I think it's lovely.

Perhaps Malte or Knut?

Btw - Onni is not Scandinavian (I've never ever hear it to be honest and I'm Swedish)

I knew an Esben at school, can't remember anything about him but always liked the name

Elin

Ditte
Karin

Henrik
Jens

But my fave 'would you dare' Scandi names have to be Pi and Ib...

It's finnish according to Google.