Dutch girl names?

[Anonymous]

Petra

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elke
Brigitta
Anneliese (CAREFUL with this one)
Greet/ Greetje
Roosje
Katelijn/ Katje
Mieke
Annika

Why? I keep reading this and thinking, MAYBE "Anal-eese?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elke
Brigitta
Anneliese (CAREFUL with this one)
Greet/ Greetje
Roosje
Katelijn/ Katje
Mieke
Annika

Why? I keep reading this and thinking, MAYBE "Anal-eese?"

Yes, there is (or was) at least one poster on DCUM who was obsessed with this.

[Anonymous]

One more vote for Annika!

[Anonymous]

My twins are Annika and Julianna, so I'm biased toward those. Another friend has an Anja, though I'm not sure that it was chosen for its "Dutchness". I loved a little cousin named Floortje when I visited family many years ago, but that name wouldn't really work here.

But I highly recommend Americanizing the spellings of some of the Dutch names (as we obviously did with Annika, rather than Aneke). The pronunciation rules are so different that you may also want to be careful of anything ending in "je" as well and change it to "ia". Just to make everyone's lives easier.

[Anonymous]

I love Annika. I know a 10 yo one who is just the sweetest girl.

[Anonymous]

Elsje and Maaike

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elsje and Maaike

But I would spell them Elsa and Maika (or Myka). I'm not the PP.

[Anonymous]

My Dutch grandmother was Muriel, and I like old-fashioned names, but that sounds a little old even to me.

I like Ingrid, but know a few of those that are young so it's not that special.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Olga
Heidi
Ingrid
Greta

Those are not Dutch names.

[Anonymous]

Sabine
Lotte
Jasmijn
Femke
Johanna
Guusje
Karlijn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My twins are Annika and Julianna, so I'm biased toward those. Another friend has an Anja, though I'm not sure that it was chosen for its "Dutchness". I loved a little cousin named Floortje when I visited family many years ago, but that name wouldn't really work here.

But I highly recommend Americanizing the spellings of some of the Dutch names (as we obviously did with Annika, rather than Aneke). The pronunciation rules are so different that you may also want to be careful of anything ending in "je" as well and change it to "ia". Just to make everyone's lives easier.

Boo.

[Anonymous]

Rietje

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love Annika. I know a 10 yo one who is just the sweetest girl.

Me too. Always reminds me of Pippi!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Annika. I know a 10 yo one who is just the sweetest girl.

Me too. Always reminds me of Pippi!

But Pippi and Annika are Swedish.