TTC & hunting for names!

[name]Fritz[/name] is [name]German[/name] (and the name of the little boy in The Nutcracker - I love both it and [name]Clara[/name]).

Some more [name]German[/name] boys’ names (would you like girls’, too?) :

If any strikes your fancy, then I can offer up the pronounciation (I’m afraid I didn’t have time to write one out for them all). As a general guide, W sounds like ‘v’, V sounds like ‘f’, IE is ‘ee’, EI is ‘eye’, CH is ‘k’, TH is ‘t’ and J is ‘y’.
A name ending in E actually ends in an ‘uh’ sound.

[name]Adelbert[/name]
[name]Alban[/name]
[name]Albert[/name]
[name]Albrecht[/name]
[name]Alfons[/name]
[name]Alfred[/name]
[name]Alois[/name]
[name]Aloysius[/name]
Amand
[name]Anselm[/name]
Ansgar
[name]Arne[/name]
[name]Artur[/name]
[name]August[/name]
[name]Axel[/name]
[name]Benedikt[/name] (only if you are religious, as this is currently the name of the Pope)
[name]Berthold[/name]
[name]Bertram[/name]
[name]Bonifaz[/name]
[name]Boris[/name]
[name]Carl[/name]
[name]Carsten[/name]
[name]Claus[/name]/[name]Klaus[/name] (KLOWS)
[name]Clemens[/name]
[name]Conrad[/name]
[name]Cornelius[/name]
[name]Dennis[/name]
Detlef (I hear ”debt”, and also ‘deaf’)
[name]Dieter[/name]
Dietfried
Diethelm
Dietmar
[name]Dietrich[/name]
[name]Ebbe[/name] (perhaps too close to [name]Emma[/name] for use in the English-speaking world)
[name]Eberhard[/name]
Eckbert
Eckart/Eckehard/Eckhard/t
[name]Edmund[/name]
[name]Elmo[/name] (he was however, a character on the children”s programme [name]Sesame[/name] [name]Street[/name])
[name]Emanuel[/name]
[name]Emmerich[/name]”
Engel
[name]Engelbert[/name]
Erdmann
Erhard
[name]Erik[/name]
[name]Ernst[/name]
[name]Erwin[/name]
[name]Eugen[/name]
[name]Evert[/name]
[name]Ewald[/name]
[name]Fabian[/name]
[name]Falk[/name]
[name]Felix[/name]
[name]Ferdinand[/name]”
Filibert
[name]Florian[/name]
[name]Franz[/name]
Friedemann”
Friedhelm
[name]Friedrich[/name]
Gebbert
Gebhard
[name]Gerald[/name]
Gereon
Gerfried
[name]Gerhard[/name]
Gernot
Gero
[name]Gerold[/name]
[name]Gert[/name]
Gerulf
[name]Gervas[/name]
[name]Gilbert[/name]
Gisbert
[name]Gottfried[/name]
[name]Gottlieb[/name]
[name]Gregor[/name]
[name]Gustaf[/name]/v
[name]Hans[/name]
[name]Harald[/name]
[name]Hartmann[/name]
Hartmut
[name]Hartwig[/name]
Hartwin
[name]Heiko[/name]
Heiner
[name]Heino[/name]
[name]Heinrich[/name]
Helmfried
[name]Helmut[/name] (reminds me of the safety gear)
[name]Hendrik[/name]/[name]Henrik[/name]/[name]Hinrich[/name]
[name]Henning[/name]
[name]Herbert[/name]
[name]Hermann[/name]
Hermenegild
[name]Hieronymus[/name]
[name]Hilbert[/name]/Hildebert
Hildebrand
[name]Horst[/name] (all equine to me)
[name]Hubert[/name]
[name]Hugo[/name]
[name]Humbert[/name]
Huppert/[name]Hubert[/name]
[name]Ignatz[/name]
[name]Immanuel[/name]
[name]Inge[/name]
[name]Ingo[/name]
Ingolf
[name]Isidor[/name]
[name]Ivo[/name]”
[name]Joachim[/name]/Jochem/[name]Jochim[/name]
[name]Johan[/name]/nn.

I’ll post more a little later :slight_smile:

BFN last weekend.

We’re narrowing down.
I love [name]Arlo[/name], [name]Lars[/name], Luxe, [name]Norm[/name], Oats, [name]Thor[/name] and [name]Israel[/name] for boys.

Girls we like [name]Luella[/name], [name]Evie[/name], [name]Sofie[/name] & [name]Stella[/name], but [name]Stella[/name]'s my paternal grandmothers name and she’s abit of a bitch. Sad cos the name is beautiful.

We really like [name]Chloe[/name] but I just can’t see myself calling out to a [name]Chloe[/name]? [name]Do[/name] you know what I mean?

Seem to be falling for a tonne more boys names than girls

Darlin could you list all of the four letter german names? Girls & boys? I have no problems using a traditionally boys name for a girl or vice versa as long as it could be seen as either in the english language.