Anonymous
Post 12/30/2014 18:49     Subject: Dutch girl names?
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2014 15:03     Subject: Dutch girl names?
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
Post 12/30/2014 15:01     Subject: Dutch girl names?
Rietje
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2014 21:29     Subject: Re:Dutch girl names?
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
Post 12/29/2014 21:25     Subject: Dutch girl names?
Sabine
Lotte
Jasmijn
Femke
Johanna
Guusje
Karlijn



Anonymous
Post 12/29/2014 21:20     Subject: Re:Dutch girl names?
Anonymous wrote:Olga
Heidi
Ingrid
Greta


Those are not Dutch names.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2014 20:33     Subject: Dutch girl names?
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
Post 12/29/2014 20:26     Subject: Dutch girl names?
Anonymous wrote:Elsje and Maaike


But I would spell them Elsa and Maika (or Myka). I'm not the PP.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2014 20:22     Subject: Dutch girl names?
Elsje and Maaike
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2014 19:38     Subject: Dutch girl names?
I love Annika. I know a 10 yo one who is just the sweetest girl.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2014 14:14     Subject: Re:Dutch girl names?

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
Post 12/29/2014 11:46     Subject: Re:Dutch girl names?
One more vote for Annika!
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2014 11:40     Subject: Dutch girl names?
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
Post 12/29/2014 11:39     Subject: Dutch girl names?
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
Post 12/29/2014 10:23     Subject: Dutch girl names?
Petra