I am looking for a short German or Scandinavian baby boy name that works with the last name "Mata" (Spanish origin). Since the last name begins with a soft sound, the first time should have harder consonants. I personally like one syllable names that begin or end in K. We are also looking to avoid the letter R or any name that is difficult to pronounce for Germans, Americans and Mexicans.
We live in the U.S., so the name should be reflective of the child's heritage with being too exotic.
Thank you!
I know someone who named their son Torsten.
Torsten Mata would work just fine.
Karl
Leif
Olaf
Sven
Nils
Otto
Sigmund
Stefan
Vilhelm
Lars (or Larz)
Erik (German spelling)
Eric (Swedish spelling)
I know both have an R sound, but I've had Spanish speaking students with the name.
This web site has 100s of German names.
http://www.germany101.com/german-baby-boys-names
Scandinavia includes several different countries. This web site has 1000s of Scandinavian names sorted out by country or origin.
http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Main_Page
I love the name Wolfgang. Just sounds so cool. =)
Frederick
Kris
My favorite is Karsten.
Wait until you meet him though - you never know what he may prefer!
I used behindthename site to find a Danish/Scandinavian middle name for my daughter and then again for my son when I was not sure what to give them. For my son, I ended up using my father's middle name. I also wanted to include some sort of heritage in there. There will always be someone who srpnounces it. My daughter's middle name is Lise and people tend to combine it with her first or call her Lisa.
My brother was adopted, and his ancestry is Scandinavian, so my parents named him Kristian with a K and he always went by Kris.
Kai. Works in so many different languages and it's a cool name.
Albert - From the Germanic name Adalbert, which was composed of the elements adal "noble" and beraht "bright".
Bruno - Derived from the Germanic element brun "armour, protection" or brun "brown".
Dominik - From the Late Latin name Dominicus meaning "of the Lord".
Felix - From a Roman cognomen meaning "lucky, successful" in Latin.
Kuno - Derived from Germanic kuni meaning "clan, family".
Oswald - Derived from the Old English elements os "god" and weald "power, ruler".
Stefan - From the Greek name Στεφανος (Stephanos) meaning "crown".
Sven - From the Old Norse byname Sveinn which meant "boy".
Vinzent - From the Roman name Vincentius, which was from Latin vincere "to conquer".
Go to the site to look up more info on these names, sometimes you have to go back to the original name the German form is derived from for the detailed meanings. T.
Finn. Kay, Kai, Leo, Lars, Sven
My grandpa and uncle were both named Hans. It is Norwegian and is pronounced Han s not Hauns. Klaus is also a good name, unless you are a Die Hard fan and then it's not so much.....
Gunter
Karl
Kruger
Dirk
Johann, Hannes, Peter, Jan, Joachim
Erik, Oskar, or Karl maybe? R sounds, but I know Mexican people named Oscar and Erika whose families have no issues pronouncing their names. Or you could go with a Frozen theme...Kristoff, Hans, Olaf... :)
My Norwegian friend named her son Kristoffer. Kris would work for you, though it has an R (not sure if you just don't want to start with R or if you want to avoid them completely)
My Swedish friend named her boys Oliver and Luca.
