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HelpRe: BAs from Germany... (long)
in reply to a message by Capucine
I'm happy to see so many rare and old names!
I like...
Theophania*** - I didn't even know that was a name!
Florentine Fabiola*
Martha Amalia** - Martha is what I'd like to name a daughter
Gerda Friederike
Frida Maelle
Josepha Grete**
Josepha Eleonore*
Odetta Margarethe Fleur
Benedikta Gertrud Maria** - How very German! Germans should use German names.
Leonora Ursula
Rebekka Marion
Adele*
Alma Margaretha
Virginia Petra
Cosima Louise
Eléonore Bastienne
Flora Fritzi Pauline
Spyridoula Sophie* - wow.
Medea
Anne Esther
Friedrich Konrad* - Yay Friedrich!
Anton Justus
Ferdinand Leopold*
Clemens Emilian*
Kilian Christophorus*
Jeremias Raphael
Edgar Maximilian
Glenn August
Florian Lionel
Leander Balthasar*
Hans Georg Alwin* - I can't remember the last time I saw Hans or Georg!
Christoph Alfred
Fridolin
Hubertus Siegfried
Clivius
Vincent Wolfgang
Julian Claudius* - I like the use of Roman names
Cornelius Immanuel*
Karl Gottlob*** - OMG! I love Gottlob!
Cosmo
Richard Albert* - more English than German
Franz Johannes***
I like...
Theophania*** - I didn't even know that was a name!
Florentine Fabiola*
Martha Amalia** - Martha is what I'd like to name a daughter
Gerda Friederike
Frida Maelle
Josepha Grete**
Josepha Eleonore*
Odetta Margarethe Fleur
Benedikta Gertrud Maria** - How very German! Germans should use German names.
Leonora Ursula
Rebekka Marion
Adele*
Alma Margaretha
Virginia Petra
Cosima Louise
Eléonore Bastienne
Flora Fritzi Pauline
Spyridoula Sophie* - wow.
Medea
Anne Esther
Friedrich Konrad* - Yay Friedrich!
Anton Justus
Ferdinand Leopold*
Clemens Emilian*
Kilian Christophorus*
Jeremias Raphael
Edgar Maximilian
Glenn August
Florian Lionel
Leander Balthasar*
Hans Georg Alwin* - I can't remember the last time I saw Hans or Georg!
Christoph Alfred
Fridolin
Hubertus Siegfried
Clivius
Vincent Wolfgang
Julian Claudius* - I like the use of Roman names
Cornelius Immanuel*
Karl Gottlob*** - OMG! I love Gottlob!
Cosmo
Richard Albert* - more English than German
Franz Johannes***
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Maybe I should post current BAs more often then - old/traditional names are really popular right now. Friedrich, for example, pops up quite frequently these days ;-)
Gottlob is (IMO, of course) a rather bold choice by the way. I guess you could almost compare it to finding a little Faintnot in a current English BA.
(Gotthilf, Gottlieb, yes, those are "grandfather names", Gottlob feels even "older", though).
I really like Martha and Adele, too. And I have recently fallen in love with Benedikta.
Gottlob is (IMO, of course) a rather bold choice by the way. I guess you could almost compare it to finding a little Faintnot in a current English BA.
(Gotthilf, Gottlieb, yes, those are "grandfather names", Gottlob feels even "older", though).
I really like Martha and Adele, too. And I have recently fallen in love with Benedikta.
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I believe it was my grandfather who was Wilhelm Gottlieb...he changed it to William when he got to the US.
I just love the old German names...I don't understand why Germans have to use names that can't really be pronounced or have much meaning or history in their language. I once met a Hedwig "Hedi" who said that even in Germany she had to spell out her name. And in German class where I go by Hedwig, the first time I told the teacher she didn't pronounce it correctly (or at least the way my family does).
I just love the old German names...I don't understand why Germans have to use names that can't really be pronounced or have much meaning or history in their language. I once met a Hedwig "Hedi" who said that even in Germany she had to spell out her name. And in German class where I go by Hedwig, the first time I told the teacher she didn't pronounce it correctly (or at least the way my family does).
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I have an uncle Albert on my German side of my family...we don't have any purely German Richards though...my grandfather is Richard, and although his mother was purely German his father was Scotch-Irish, and I don't think there were any Richards in his mothers family (though they did have a Percy, highly unusual for Germans).
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