German Names

[skittles22088.livejournal.com]

My husband and I have the very German last name of Raeder and I was wondering what everyone's favorite Germanic names are.  So, what are they?  Thanks in advance!

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[sunshinefleur.livejournal.com]

Anneliese. I love it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/-----citylight/]

Anal-ease!
lol sorry

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how germanic this is, but I knew a german lady named Cornelia (Cor-NEH-lee-ah) and I thought it was very fitting of the "german attitude".

One teutonic name I like is Brigitta (Breeg-eatt-ah) and variations of.
And also Adelaide (Ah-del-EYE-deh) and Lodemai (LO-deh-my).

[skittles22088.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I like Adelaide, but I've never heard that pronunciation of it before. I pronounce it AH-duh-layd.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

that's how it's pronounced in italian as well

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Felix (plan on using it), Dietrich (plan on using it), Friedrich (love but probably won't use), Franziska (ditto), Karl (undecided on whether I want to use it or not). I love lots of German names--I'm 1/2 German and my partner is fully German.

[jaydestarlight.livejournal.com]

I adore the name Felix!

[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

I love Friedrich and Karl :)

[moldycelery.livejournal.com]

Gisela, Elisabeth (pronounced the German way), Brigitta and Sabine for girls.

Christian, Kai and Hans for boys.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Claudia, Katja, Astrid, Catrin, Freja, Hannelore, Ingrid, Leni, Liesel, Petra, Annika

Axel, Conrad, Dieter, Lars, Linus, Stephan

[skittles22088.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Astrid, Liesel, Annika, Petra, and Axel.

[compulsivelyme.livejournal.com]

Allison
Annaliese
Caspar
Edda
Gretchen
Henry
Johanna
Katrina
Lukas
Milla
Stefan

I really like Astrid too, which is a Scandinavian name.
Tanner

[skittles22088.livejournal.com]

Henry is on my list, but my husband doesn't like it. Boo on him lol. I love Johanna and Milla, too.

[fatinah-aila.livejournal.com]

Gretchen is only used as a nickname for Margarete in Germany, as far as i know. So it is not a real name in Germany.

[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

And I think that Astrid Reader sounds quite gorgeous.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

levi and anneliese

[fueschgast]

I find it so fascinating how much of an cultural thing that his, what we think about names. There are German names that I absolutely wouldn't use, because they're too old (seriously, Adelheid, Helmut, that would be just weird) or because of bad associations (Dieter, Detlef, ew!). But in another country they could be so usable.
Hm, hard to list German names, because what is German? There are those names that are common here, but really aren't German (like Rene and Sven). Some names we share with other countries, maybe hard to tell where they came from. And then there are those old school, definitely German names that aren't usable anymore. Mostly.
So here's my list of more or less usable names we share with other countries or not:

Andrea
Andreas
Anke
Ariane
Armin (okay, one of the old ones on the list, but I like it because we had a cool teacher with that name)

Bettina
Björn
Birgit
Brigitte
Burkhard

Carola
Caroline
Carsten
Claudia

Doreen
Dorit

Erik

Fabian
Falk(o)
Felix
Florian
Frank
Franka
Franziska

Henriette
Holger

Jan
Jana
Janina
Johanna
Jörg
Jürgen
Juliane

Kai
Karina
Kat(h)rin
Kerstin
Klemens
Kristin

Liane
Luisa
Lukas

Margitta
Markus
Matthias

Sabine
(Se)bastian
Sonja
Stefan
Stefanie
Steffen

Ulrike

Volker

[skittles22088.livejournal.com]

I like:
Caroline
Erik
Florian
Johanna
Karina
Sebastian

Thanks!

[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

actually I still love the name Deitrich - my Aunt's late-husband was named that, and it is gorgeous.

Other names (from my very Austrian family):
Julia
Nicholas
Josef
William
Nora
Isabella
Richard
Katarina

[soundofbusiness.livejournal.com]

Britte, Heike, Johan, Katja, Konrad, Liesel, Sabine, Wilhelm...those are my favorites.

[fatinah-aila.livejournal.com]

This is a list of the top 500 popular names of 2008:

http://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/2008-top500

[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

Jolanthe was my Oma's name and I have always loved it :)

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

Gretchen! (My baby's name)

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

and here are a few from my husband's German family tree:
Fritz
Otto
Karl

Karla
Ingrid
Anna