Norse names that work ok in Engilsh?

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which ones do you think work well in English?

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For boys or girls? I like Oscar, Magnus and Erik for boys.

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For girls

[blirdettre?]

Olivia, Sara, Hanne, Anne, Marie, Mia, Ellen

 

my daughter is called Kaia, and if this one is a girl it wil probably be Isabel

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I want old Norse girl names.

 

Did you missunderstand Norse for Norsk??

Not just any common Norwegian name that works in English...

[cpubim]

I don't there are many that work, but I've seen Freya in the UK.

[Jenna]

A little one I take care of, his name is Brage (brah-guh). I think its a really cool, unique name and sounds great in both English and Norwegian (I'm American, and the way I pronounce it it sounds neat) Brage(i) is a Norse god.

[ZoeSelina]

Elin, Halley, Lene (or Lena) and Thora are all nice.

 

I found some really dodgy ones when I started looking though. Meklorka? Volva? Thokk? Ehm...

[Virvelvind]

http://www.babynamesgarden.com/aresults.aspx is one of the sites that offer some variation in the searches and the meaning of the names, There was 3 different norse versions, the old norse option had the best options that | could see

 

Coping over the names it suggested:

Astrid

Erica

Erika

Ingrid

Sky

Solveig

Torry

Tyra

 

Others that didn't come on that list would be:

 

Alvdis

Aud

Eyr

Frøya (Froya)

Gunnhild

Idunn

Ingeborg

Jorid

Signe

Siv

Ragnhild

Rannveig

Torunn

Tordis

 

There is others as well, some sound really terrible in english though, and compared to those the ok ones came along on this list Can't say if all are norse, but most should be

Good luck on the name hunt!

 

[MammaBrum]

I know this is an acient thread, but if anybody else is browsing:

One of my favourite names is Nora. Should fit the bill here