Two Questions

[holysheep.livejournal.com]

1) What do you think of the names Ava and Amelia for a sibset? We know we only want two girls at the maximum -- his family prefers mainly male children -- and these were the only two names we both liked. We know Amelia would be the older one. Middle names are still a bit iffy...

2) What are your favorite German names? Girls AND boys. We know we want really strong, strong German names for our boys. We haven't found any German girls names that we both love besides Ada, but it's too close to Ava. If you guys have any suggestions, that would be great.

ETA: We already have two sons, Dierk and Jens.

Comments

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

For German names, there are lots of names that are common in both the US and Germany that are just pronounced a bit differently. The German names I've encountered a fair amount:
Peter (PAY-ter), Stephan (SCHTE-fon), Florian, Christian, Christoph, Franz (I assume Franzi is a nickname for Franz, but I'm not sure), Markus (MAR-kous), Rolf, Andreas, Thomas (TOE-moss), Johann, Sebastian, Titus, Lucas, Jonas.
For girls some of these might not be as popular, I dunno, but I like: Marille (muh-REAL-(uh), roughly), Andrea (on-DRAY-uh) (I guess pretty much every German girl I know is named Andrea, actually), Elizabeth (but they all go by nicknames), Steffi (Stephanie), Christine/Christina, Sofie, Birgit, Brigitta, Leonie, Anna, Lena, Marie.