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Adele (given name) Adelheid. Adriana. Agnes (name) Alina. Almut. Almuth. Amalia (given name) Amalie (given name)
Traditionally, there are dialectal differences between the regions of German-speaking Europe, especially visible in the forms of hypocorisms.These differences are still perceptible in the list of most popular names, even though they are marginalized by super-regional fashionable trends: As of 2012, the top ten given names of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany) and of Schleswig-Holstein ...
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 ...
20. Hilda. Guido Mieth/Getty Images. This name of German origin has a strong sound and a meaning to match: “battle woman.”. 21. Helga. Helga is an Old Norse name with a Germanic meaning of ...
German feminine given names (221 P) S. ... Pages in category "Germanic feminine given names" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir (1887–1944), German sculptor, painter, and graphic artist; Méret Oppenheim (1913–1985), German-born Swiss Surrealist artist, photographer; Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997), photographer; Li Osborne (1883–1968), German-born British photographer and sculptor; Anna Kerstin Otto (born 1972), painter; Justine Otto (born 1974 ...
Germanic name. Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, King Æþelred 's name was derived from æþele, meaning "noble", and ræd, meaning "counsel". However, there are also names dating from an early time which seem to be monothematic ...
Low German given names (5 P) N. Norwegian given names (2 C, 5 P) O. Old English given names (1 C, 37 P) ... Pages in category "Germanic given names"