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the underlining of Emmy communicates that this is the Rufname, even though it is the second of two official given names. In Germany, the chosen name must be approved by the local Standesamt (civil registry office). Although a 1980 law previously stated that the name must indicate the gender of the child, a 2008 court ruling unanimously upheld ...
Pages in category "German masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 349 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Many native English (Anglo-Saxon) names fell into disuse in the later Middle Ages, but experienced a revival in the Victorian era; some of these are Edward, Edwin, Edmund, Edgar, Alfred, Oswald and Harold for males; the female names Mildred and Gertrude also continue to be used in present day, Audrey continues the Anglo-Norman (French) form of ...
German masculine given names (349 P) O. Old English masculine given names (22 P) S. Scandinavian masculine given names (5 C, 108 P) Pages in category "Germanic ...
The common names Schmidt and Schmitz lead in the central German-speaking and eastern Low German-speaking areas. Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions, especially in Lower Saxony (where it is more common than Müller). Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and ...
In East Asia, the names have generally been imported directly from German "deutsch" or Dutch "duits" in various ways. The Chinese name is a phonetic approximation of the German proper adjective. The Vietnamese name is based on the Chinese name. The Japanese name is a phonetic approximation of the Dutch proper adjective.
Pages in category "German given names" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In German, Kevinismus ("Kevinism") is the negative preconception German people have of Germans with trendy, exotic-sounding first names considered to be an indicator of a low social class. [1] The prototypical example is Kevin , which like most such names came to Germany from Hiberno-American culture.