I’m browsing for my list since I could use some fresh inspiration. The thing is that there tends to be a mismatch between my style for girl names and boy names, due to personal experience I tend to shy away from girl names in the FN position that would cause too much difficulty in other language areas (or primarily, difficulty in the Anglosphere). For boys I have the issue that I don’t actually like that many names, and I have few truly international faves and I notice I’m more comfortable reverting back to names corresponding with my own cultural background (you can ignore the boys part of my sig for the better part for that reason). While I could try finding style matches for my girl names, I think it’d perhaps be more interesting to see what you berries would come up with if I instead do it the other way around and look for girl name matches for my boys.
So here are my Dutch style boy faves:
[name_m]Willem[/name_m]
[name_m]Mees[/name_m] (pronounced like the word ‘maze’)
Melle ([name_u]MELL[/name_u]-uh)
Mels
[name_m]Twan[/name_m] (like the ‘toine’ in [name_m]French[/name_m] ‘[name_u]Antoine[/name_u]’)
[name_u]Stef[/name_u]
[name_m]Joris[/name_m] (YOUR-iz - like an elongated version of the word ‘yours’)
[name_m]Bram[/name_m]
[name_m]Just[/name_m] to give you an idea, the girl names that are on my list that I would kind of consider a style match are:
[name_f]Madelief[/name_f]
[name_f]Fenna[/name_f] (a popular name in the NL of ([name_u]West[/name_u]) Frisian origin)
[name_f]Isolde[/name_f]
PS: The reason I’m calling these ‘Dutch style’ is because the origin of these names is not necessarily Dutch, it’s just that it aligns with the Dutch naming trend of ‘quite short and spunky yet recognisable’.