3rd July, 2010

posted 1 year ago

raelee asked: Related to the question about your name, can you share some common German names? And/or names that you've only really heard used in Germany?

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Hmmm… of course the popularity of names always change. But here are some names that you hear often in Germany:

Girls: Stefanie, Nicole, Christina, Lena, Laura, Andrea, Julia, Yvonne, Susanne, Tanja, Nadine, Corinna, Kerstin, Katja, Daniela, Simone…

Boys: Alexander, Stefan, Markus, Thomas, Florian, Frank, Christian, Sven, Thorsten, Tobias, Maximilian, Paul, Felix…

Names that are only heard in Germany?.. Puuuh… tricky question ;) I can only think about old-fashioned names and I’m not even sure about those…

For boys I’d say names like Karl-Heinz, Dieter, Gottfried, Otto, Horst, Werner, Rudolf etc.

For girls: Annelise, Berta, Walburga, Kunigunde, Gerda, Gertrud, Ilse, Ute etc.

I’m sure some of them sound funny to you ;)

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