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[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I thought it might be interesting to post the most populair names of 2007 here in The Netherlands. Because it's so different from other name lists here. And because there are very Dutch names on it ;) Here we go:

Girls:
01 Sophie
02 Lotte
03 Sanne
04 Lieke
05 Emma
06 Eva
07 Fleur
08 Noa
09 Anna
10 Julia
11 Isa
12 Lisa
13 Iris
14 Femke
15 Britt
16 Anouk
17 Roos
18 Amber
19 Anne
20 Maud

Boys:
01 Daan
02 Tim
03 Sem
04 Jesse
05 Ruben
06 Thijs
07 Stijn
08 Lucas
09 Thomas
10 Milan
11 Lars
12 Sven
13 Luuk
14 Bram
15 Julian
16 Max
17 Finn
18 Niels
19 Jayden
20 Jasper

Comments

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

Is there any way you could put pronunciations for some of the names that are harder to pronounce? I'm interested to see how, for instance, Thijs and Stijn are pronounced.

[pap3r-heart.livejournal.com]

Thijs rhymes with dice.
Matt Lauer (from the Today show) named his son that. His wife is from the Netherlands.

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I kind of like that one. I wouldn't ever use it, mostly because I have no connection to the Netherlands at all, but I do like it.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

It's difficult to explain the 'ij' sound, because English doesn't have that. But the 'y' in 'my' comes closest to what it's supposed to sound like =)

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I had a teacher whose name was Marije, she pronounced exactly like Mariah (Carey, the singer). So maybe the 'ij' group is something close to the '-iah' sound in english?

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

That's pretty close to what it sounds like indeed! Ony -iah is closer to -ije' than to 'ij', but oh well. Wow, Marije is a very Dutch name as well ;)

[pap3r-heart.livejournal.com]

I like a lot of these.

How are Sanne, Lieke, Noa, Isa, and Roos pronounced?

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

Noa is just like Noah. Without an h, it's a girl's name. It's more common in Europe than it is in the United States, I think.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Sanne is pretty much the most common girl's name here =P
Pronunciations:
Sanne: Sah-neh
Lieke: Lee-keh
Noa: the same as English
Isa: Ee-sah
Roos: Rose (it's the Dutch word for Rose, and it's pronounced exactly the same =))

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Is Lotte pronounced 'Lot' or 'Lottie'? Either way, it's nice. :)

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Neither, actually. I mean, here it's pronounced Lot-teh ;)

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Ohh, I think I like that one the best, actually.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Sven is pronounced like Swen (-en as in ten =P). Sem is pronounced just the way it's written (so, like Sam, actually) and Bram is pronounced like Brahm. That one's on my list ;)
I love the names Lucas and Julia as well =)
& Yeah I know...I don't like Jayden either =P

[todaydream.livejournal.com]

It's fun to see people trying to pronounce names that are just 'normal' for me ;)

And I didn't know that Jayden was popular here too... don't know what to think of the name.