21 German names I NEVER HEARD OF until I moved to Germany | american in germany
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@avaschenk7295 4 жыл бұрын
Most of the names are older, so not many young people have those names. But I think many people are called Moritz here.
@siegfriedschulz-piasecki2164 4 жыл бұрын
As a Siegfried (43 years old), I can say: Nobody at my age is named Siegfried. I should be my Grandfather
@jhdix6731 4 жыл бұрын
Obviously here that name is mostly known from Wilhelm Busch, but I think it is more popular in France than it is in Germany (as Maurice obviously).
@Wildcard71 4 жыл бұрын
When I read the name Carl Georg, I expected someone quite old. So I was surprised when I saw him.
@alexandrorocca7142 4 жыл бұрын
Moritz is quite common in Switzerland too.
@avaschenk7295 4 жыл бұрын
@@alexandrorocca7142 Ja ich habe auch gedacht, dass viele Leute in Deutschland so heißen aber vielleicht habe ich mich da auch unbewusst ein bisschen von der Schweiz beeinflussen lassen
@folkehoffmann1198 4 жыл бұрын
Gatte is actually a short version of the word Ehegatte. Which means husband, like you said. There is also the word Gattin or Ehegattin, which means wife.
@scelestion 4 жыл бұрын
To be precise: "Gatte" was once a word for a companion in general, and "Ehegatte" was used to refer specifically to a spouse - a marital companion, if you will. However, the old, general meaning of "companion" for "Gatte" was lost over time, and it was soon only associated with the "spouse" meaning. The feminine forms are of course "Gattin" and "Ehegattin", but they presumably only date back to the 18th century. Before that, "Gatte" was the word for both men and women.
@froedlmetallmann4643 4 жыл бұрын
Folke Hoffmann I would have said “spouse”.
@Herzschreiber 4 жыл бұрын
@@froedlmetallmann4643 exactly my thought.
@folkehoffmann1198 4 жыл бұрын
@@froedlmetallmann4643 yeah you can say spouse as well as husband/wife. But with spouse it doesnt matter if you are referring to a man or a woman but with Gatte/Gattin it does.
@silkwesir1444 4 жыл бұрын
"Gatte" is also an old fashioned way to say it, I think.
@Stacybell92 4 жыл бұрын
Hey Dana, are you sure you mean “Cord” and not “Kurt”? Maybe it’s a regional thing, but I’ve never heard “Cord” being used as a name. For me Cord has always just meant corduroy fabric, haha.
@Baccatube79 4 жыл бұрын
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_(Name)
@Stacybell92 4 жыл бұрын
@@Baccatube79 I had no idea :) it's super unusual though.
@Baccatube79 4 жыл бұрын
@@Stacybell92 not super unusual, but to me it sounds pretty much like Prussian landed gentry.
@Baccatube79 4 жыл бұрын
When you look at the list of famous namesakes on Wikipedia, they are really all from Lower Saxony, Hamburg, Hanover, Bremen... It is definitely a Northern German name.
@WSandig 4 жыл бұрын
I've never heard of Cord either, but it seems to be a thing.
@rombarker3129 4 жыл бұрын
The Name Manfred is in History Books. The RED BARON's name was Manfred.
@Sina-aka-potatosupreme 4 жыл бұрын
Don’t worry about not knowing about Gatte. I had the same confusion with the term Hubby for husband.
@Wildcard71 4 жыл бұрын
It sounds like someone from "The Hub".
@stephaniewerner4937 4 жыл бұрын
Ich bin Deutsche und habe den Namen Cord bis zu diesem Video noch nie gehört 😅
@thorstenwinter6075 3 жыл бұрын
Na ja, die Norddeutschen oder auch Kölner haben ab und zu komische Namen. Ich kenne einen Kölner der "Menno" heißt.
@sarazepam6156 4 жыл бұрын
Cord? I live in Germany and have never heard that name in my life.
@lindamanyana 4 жыл бұрын
I have, a friend of mine is called Cord.
@kinalanela6965 4 жыл бұрын
Cord is more of a Northern German Name. Just like Xaver ist more like a Southern German Name and the Abbreviation Jupp for Joseph is very common in the Rhineland Region.
@tidalwave76 4 жыл бұрын
Kinala Nela „Latten Jupp“ is a prerogative name for Jesus on the cross. www.mundmische.de/bedeutung/1346-Lattenjupp Jupp was often used in the Rhineland or Ruhr area.
@dodoontherocks 4 жыл бұрын
Kurt?
@minervamcgonagall3911 4 жыл бұрын
Ich kenne einen Cord.
@archiegates650 4 жыл бұрын
Regarding Manfred: I am surprised that Dana never heard of the Band Manfred Mann's Earth Band, where she should have learned about that Firstname. Regarding Gerhard: I love the old comedy western "The Halelujah Trail" (40 wagen westwärts) where Burt Lancaster plays Colonel Gearhard pronounced like the americanized version of the german Firstname. And please change your pronounciation of Käthe! Do not name these girls a "chain" as Kette is pronounced with a short vowel where Käääääthe should be spoken slower with a looong vowel ;-)
@carbon-basedlifeform4314 4 жыл бұрын
thought the same 😉 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/osmHia9lp5OYoH0.html
@archiegates650 4 жыл бұрын
@@carbon-basedlifeform4314 You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gZdjm6th1bDcZac.html )
@jessicaely2521 4 жыл бұрын
I never heard of them. You have to think what age she is. 1970's music was awhile ago. Also not all music that was popular in Europe made it across the Atlantic. If they did make it across the Atlantic they were a 1 hit wonder SOMETIMES. UB40 Red Red Wine is the 1 hit wonder that comes to my mind. I moved to Switzerland and was shocked they weren't a 1 hit wonder here.
@Danny30011980 4 жыл бұрын
Bliiiinded by the light... I will be struggling to get this song outa my mind now lol
@gaukelinchen 4 жыл бұрын
Liselotte, Waltraud, Berthold are old names, which are coming up now again. Cord - for my opinion - is more used in Northern Germany.
@DJDoena 4 жыл бұрын
As for Käthe: You pronounce it as "Kette". Try coming from the English pronunciation of "Caity" and make it a short "e" at the end as in the English name "Kade". Then you just need to slightly elongate the "ay" sound in the middle and you are at "Käthe".
@dannydanny9875 4 жыл бұрын
Light and Fluffy, just what I needed
@cheezarose 4 жыл бұрын
As a Belgian,I feel like 80% of these names are the typical names we think of when we think of German names.
@Leenapanther 4 жыл бұрын
As a Swiss I think these are very German names. Apart from Moritz, Verena and Käthi (short for Katharina) these names aren't common in Switzerland.
@cheezarose 4 жыл бұрын
@@Leenapanther We have Moritz and Kathy here in Belgium too.
@mt-vd1qt 4 жыл бұрын
They're quite old names though, I reckon, and probably the reason why a Belg/Belge/Belgier (or anyone else) would think of them when it comes to German names... :)
@valeriepreu7921 4 жыл бұрын
Leenapanther that‘s funny because as a german, I would say that Moritz and Verena are the only modern and at this time often used names. Most of the other names are really „old“ - like you would expect that anyones grandma is named like this but literally no one who is younger than 70.
@vbvideo1669 4 жыл бұрын
Sehr unterhaltsames Video! :)
@DJDoena 4 жыл бұрын
Manfred Mann's Earth Band!
@uwu_5682 4 жыл бұрын
What a nice video idea :)
@Baccatube79 4 жыл бұрын
Isn't the mammoth in Ice Age called Manfred in English?
@LaS195 4 жыл бұрын
II looked it up. His name is "Manny," which according to wikipedia is short for Manuel, not Manfred, in the english language.
@lenastorm6280 4 жыл бұрын
I thought that to.
@boombaby1769 4 жыл бұрын
@@LaS195 You looked it up wrong, his name is indeed Manfred. "Manny", yes, but his name is Manfred.
@LaS195 4 жыл бұрын
@@boombaby1769 Can you please tell me your source? I refer to the English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age_(2002_film)), it never says Manfred.
@illuminada 4 жыл бұрын
@@LaS195 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ice_Age_characters#Manny I never knew that either.
@Baccatube79 4 жыл бұрын
Berti kann be short for any name with the syllable "Bert" in it. Bertolt, Hubert, Engelbert, Gosbert... the names combined of Germanic name syllables are a bit on the retreat these days, they were chic in the 1920s to 1950s but lost drive afterwards.
@meplays5269 4 жыл бұрын
And there is a reason for their popularity: everyone wanted their kids to be super german by default. Either because they were proud of it or just wanted to erase all doubt when the Nazis came around. Was safer for the kids to have an "arian" name.
@Baccatube79 4 жыл бұрын
@@meplays5269 Err... they were just fashionable. Zeitgeist, you know. They existed before the nazis, and they were around after them, and maybe they'll be back one of these days. Like, when I was a kid, Emma, Frieda, and Lina were names for old spinsters - today, they are hipster girls' names.
@untergehermuc 4 жыл бұрын
Robert
@EMvanLoon 4 жыл бұрын
If not from Germanic, the Latin Lambertus could also be an origin. At least in the Netherlands Bert is a common name.
@jhdix6731 4 жыл бұрын
That syllable Bert is derived from old german "beraht" (meaning radiant, splendid). Combined with "Rhaban" (=Raven) it would become "Robert", and "Engelbert" would be connected to the Angles, the germanic tribe that mixed with the saxons in Britain.
@64north20west 4 жыл бұрын
"Have you heard of these names before"? Yes. My grandmother's name made your list. Fun video!
@andromeda188 4 жыл бұрын
Mine too
@lovelight5294 4 жыл бұрын
I’m from USA and lived in Deutschland from 2001-2004 and first heard the name “Katherina” aka “Kati” when I lived there and totally fell in love with it! I named my first daughter Katherina and she is almost 16 years old now!! I’ve wanted to move back to Deutschland every since but haven’t been able to... yet!!
@martinyfelix 4 жыл бұрын
There's a lot of names you mentioned that I know from famous people: Manfred Mai, Waltraud Meier, Verena Aschauer, Moritz Bleibtreu, Hildegard von Bingen, Jupp Heynckes, Käthe Kollwitz. There's a German movie call 'Free Rainer' coincidentally starring Moritz Bleibtreu. Siegfried will always remind me of Der Ring des Nibelungen. There's also a brand called Engelbert Strauss, that's the first thing that came to mind when you mentioned the name.
@Hans_R._Wahl 4 жыл бұрын
Engelbert Humperdinck - but known only to fans of classical music.
@Attirbful 4 жыл бұрын
In Käthe, and Käthchen, the Umlaut has a long „ä“-sound
@chrom0xide123 4 жыл бұрын
Britta Feyerabend Like in „Käse“
@anniebe4992 4 жыл бұрын
when you say man, like maaaaaan, in American English, maybe you can use that a as the ä for Käthe
@martinjunghofer3391 3 жыл бұрын
das "ä" wäre kurz, wenn zwei gleiche Konsonanten folgen würden; ist aber nicht, deswegen lang!
@Baccatube79 4 жыл бұрын
Moritz = Maurice, and, yes, it is totally common.
@connyapfelbaum4498 4 жыл бұрын
Maurice oder Morris
@LigH_de 4 жыл бұрын
Wilhelm Busch: Max und Moritz ... most famous good-night stories for German children
@thkempe 4 жыл бұрын
= Mauritius (if blue, it might be very precious) obviously a name from the Roman era (St. Maurice, often depicted as a black man like in Magdeburg Cathedral)
@Baccatube79 4 жыл бұрын
@@thkempe and he is, as far as I know, the patron saint of the pharmacists which is why there are so many "Mohren-Apotheken" in Germany.
@thkempe 4 жыл бұрын
@@Baccatube79 I haven't heard about the "Pillendreher" thing yet.
@sternenregen5489 4 жыл бұрын
Die Bezeichnung "Gatte" für Ehemann, fand ich schon immer gruselig😁
@NantokaNejako 4 жыл бұрын
Ja! Ich denke da immer an "begatten". 😝
@thomasrappen5906 4 жыл бұрын
dear dana, th fluffy, light and funny things are cute, when you do them, you're a wonderful person, love to listen to you.. and yes, the serious things impress me, too...blessed week to both of you...
@echoshelly2384 4 жыл бұрын
I have heard Moritz before. Now Lieselotte is my German name hhhhh thx for sharing this gorgeous name 🥰🥰
@Ueberschaer 4 жыл бұрын
That was very sweet...greetz from Heiko :-)
@disobedientdolphin 4 жыл бұрын
As a German I never heard of the name "Cord". But it makes absolutely sense that it is a short version of Conrad/Konrad.
@geab.2182 4 жыл бұрын
Hey Dana, I think Cord is a very pretty or handsome name and always thought so since first stumbling upon a Cord (around the age of 22 and having spent most of these 22 years in Germany). I didn't know though (or probably forgot) that historically it comes from Conrad and carries the same meaning! So thanks for the (re-)enlightenment! :-)
@meikem.1095 4 жыл бұрын
Moin Dana, danke, dass Du meinen Namen so magst 🤗. Ich habe gelernt, dass das die Verkleinerung des Namens Maria ist und aus dem Friesischen kommt. Ich bin sehr froh über die Wahl meiner Eltern 😊
@paulsj9245 4 жыл бұрын
Love that video! Verena sounds Italian to me, and, appropriately, it's derived from Latin "verus". Just learned that Meike is a north German form of Maria - Mary. Many of the names you mentioned have origins in the ancient languages of Old High German and Middle High German with powerful translations. For instance, Berthold is "glänzender Herrscher" = "shining emperor". Käthe = Katharina => Kathrin, -chen being the diminuitive. For perfection, just pronounce it with a long "ä", "Kääthe" Fun fact: Heinz ketchup was invented by Henry (Heinrich=Heinz) John (=Johannes=Hans) Heinz, son of German immigrants to the USA.
@smileyxd6240 3 жыл бұрын
Hey, my name is Verena and I think it's a Swiss name. At least there are lots of people called Verena in Swizerland😁
@matteoonida7701 4 жыл бұрын
First of all thank YOU for your last video. It's good to hear that we share the same fears and thoughts. Anyway some of the names you say in this video were new to me. When I hear Hildegard, I think of Olaf because there is a scene in Frozen 2 where he's searching for a Hildegard (at least in German) 😂😂
@LigH_de 4 жыл бұрын
You have never heard of Manfred Mann's Earth Band? (Mighty Quinn, Blinded By The Light, Pretty Flamingo, Ha Ha Said The Clown, Doo Wah Diddy ...)
@ikw6262 4 жыл бұрын
To answer your central question: YES, I´ve heard all of those and it makes me wonder that even some of them are that unknown abroad. Pretty shure, that you can find some heritages for all of them (digging deep enough), that you can link to an actual american equivalent? Btw, I really love that courious joy you seem to have while exploring new things.Please don´t lose it.
@tanjaborchers2286 3 жыл бұрын
The Manfred Mann also had a number one hit in the US Charts. Do wah diddy. Cats often named Moritz in Germany
@Danny30011980 4 жыл бұрын
One of my uncle's names is Manfred and I have an auntie Irmgard. Popular names in the 60's apparently
@Wizamatox 4 жыл бұрын
I'm neither German nor in Germany. However, I work at a university and deal with research publications all day, primarily but not exclusively ones written in English. So due to my work, I had seen several of these names before, however I had no idea what language these names were associated with or whether they were common or not.
@Lea-rb9nc 3 жыл бұрын
I know a few here in my little village on the Mediterranean, Ulrike, and Gudrun are among them.
@nriamond8010 4 жыл бұрын
I BET you have heard of the name ending -bert before: Think of "Robert"! I guess "Berti" is short for any name with "bert" in it and there are LOTS: Bertram, Hubert, Herbert, Norbert, Gilbert, Dagobert ... Most of the names you mentioned are very common, but only for old people (with the exception of Meike/Maike and Moritz who are still quite popular). They are mostly Germanic names which got out of fashion about 50 years ago so hardly any younger German has those names anymore. But there are a few which are coming back nowadays, like Friedrich or Paul or Karl.
@riskante 4 жыл бұрын
Cord is new for me. I am Austrian. Your Käthe sounds like Kette. But all others were perfect. :)
@irenestrau9902 4 жыл бұрын
Maybe she means Kurt
@WienerVL 4 жыл бұрын
Im also from Austria and i knew Cord! Are we in the same country?;-))))
@riskante 4 жыл бұрын
@@WienerVL keine Ahnung, meine Kindheit war in den 70ern, und da hatten alle klassiche Namen :)
@connyapfelbaum4498 4 жыл бұрын
Das stand eindeutig Cord C O R D.
@annkathrinhanamond2982 4 жыл бұрын
@@irenestrau9902 Das sind beides Kurzformen von Konrad, aber ich würde vermuten, dass Cord im norddeutschen Raum verbreiteter ist.
@TheKirschbaumfee 4 жыл бұрын
Besides Verena, Meike und Moritz these names are only common for middle aged people or elders. But some of them are popular baby names again, for example Kurt (i dont think anyone writes it Cord)
@ezekielatueyi8016 4 жыл бұрын
Nice video
@gerdz.1694 3 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahahaha, Im Gerd and I just love the way You pronounce it. So cute! Have another great da in our german paradise! :) :)
@dreadfulsanity4686 4 жыл бұрын
Ehegatte is an oldish word for Ehemann. I've born and lived in Germany all my life but I've never heard the name Cord before I watched your video. Hope you and yours are well. You're getting through this together, even if you're apart. Big hugs from me.
@MrGettinlate 4 жыл бұрын
Dana, There used to be a German restaurant in Tequesta, about 30ish miles from your old home in Florida. The owners were Horst & Verena. BTW, Horst is a name I've never heard anywhere else. I was sad to discover the restaurant had closed about 15 or 20 years ago.
@bernhardkrickl3567 4 жыл бұрын
I agree that Lieselotte is a sweet name. For me, it will forever be linked to Swiss actress Lieselotte Pulver, nicknamed "Lilo", because I grew up watching the German version of Sesame Street when Lilo Pulver was a regular on the show.
@dyleila 4 жыл бұрын
Lieselotte is my grandmother's name, it comes from Elisabeth (Liese/Lisa) and Charlotte. 😉
@nikolausnowak9382 4 жыл бұрын
The name "Lieselotte" is featured in Erich Kästner's book "Das doppelte Lottchen" ("Lottie and Lisa" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_and_Lisa) where parents name there twin girls Liese and Lotte splitting their granny's name Lieselotte. The story has been adapted as "The Parent Trap" movies in 1961 (featuring Hayley Mills) and again in 1998 (featuring Lindsay Lohan).
@nikolausnowak9382 4 жыл бұрын
Ouch! Of course "their" twins...
@UntotesSchaf 4 жыл бұрын
Wow, you mentioned my grandmother's, grandfather's, mother's and brother's name. The last one has a slightly other spelling and it's not very common, I'd say. But it was in your video! 🙂
@gisela-lg5ym 3 жыл бұрын
Engelbert Humperdinck is a word wide known Name. Berti is often used for Herbert not really for Engelbert which to my knowledge is never shortened
@KelbenArunsun 4 жыл бұрын
Meike, either with an e or an a (Maike) are girls names. For Jupp (pronounce the u like the two os in school), Jupp Hainkes was a trainer of a soccerteam, Jupp is mostly common in the northern part of germany.
@philipkudrna5643 4 жыл бұрын
Verena is actually derived from Greek „pherenike“ (the one that brings victory), and is this actually related to the brand „Nike“, which is the name of the Greek goddess of victory.
@odinallvater5305 4 жыл бұрын
At our school here in Germany there are at least two People named "Moritz", so it is in some places a common name. :)
@jgorman64 3 жыл бұрын
I have a good friend in the Paderborn area named "Moritz". He has a cousin named "Hauke" and that cousin's father's name is Volker. also a good friend. His brother's name is "Leonard" and he goes by "Lenni". I got used to all those names over the years.
@3Kidneys 4 жыл бұрын
Berti is also short for Herbert (and any other name with 'bert' in it). My grandpas name is Herbert but he doesn't like "Berti" so he gets called "Heppy" (pronounced like "happy") by everyone. Have you ever met or heard the names Beke (f), Sören (m), Dörte (f), Mats (m), Frauke (f), Arne (m), Traudel (f) or Eberhard (m)? In my opinion these are some pretty unusual names to foreigners. *I know at least one person with each name who is younger than 30.
@heidiej4988 4 жыл бұрын
Lieselotte is so pretty!
@junotrekki 4 жыл бұрын
Mein Vorname ist Helge - ich bin männlich. Den Namen gibt es auch öfter in Deutschland und ich kenne auch eine Frau, die den Namen Helge hat, wobei es bei Frauen auch den Namen Helga gibt (HelgE - HelgA). Mein name kann also sowohl von Frauen, als auch von Männern benutzt werden.
@thorstenwinter6075 3 жыл бұрын
Die Leute mit dem Namen Kim hassen diese Tatsache. 😁😁😁
@AnnBajou 4 жыл бұрын
Lieselotte was my grandma's name. 😁 My other grandma's name was Gisela. 😊
@kippen64 4 жыл бұрын
I have heard of Manfred, Siegfried and Hildegard. I am Australian and have never been overseas except for two weeks in China back in 1995.
@trickycoolj 4 жыл бұрын
My cousins in Germany are 13 years younger and I participated in their first day of school and all their classmates have really old fashioned American names from the siblings of my American grandma!
@martinstubs6203 4 жыл бұрын
Hey, don't you know the British pop star, Manfred Mann? "Pretty Flamingo", "Do wah diddy diddy", ...
@JesseKuiper 4 жыл бұрын
You must have heard of Bert right? If you have ever watched Sesame Street.
@Baccatube79 4 жыл бұрын
Or Mary Poppins, for that matter.
@helloweener2007 4 жыл бұрын
But is his name Berthold or Engelbert? :-D
@tomfitzpatrick6524 4 жыл бұрын
Bert the cop, played by Ward Bond in "It's a Wonderful Life".
@Hans_R._Wahl 4 жыл бұрын
Bertie, the nickname of King Edward VII. of England.
@pkorobase 4 жыл бұрын
old german names often consist of two parts having a distinct meaning. So you can combine Fried-, Adel, Bald-, Bert-, Kuni-, Ehren-, even Hilde- (and more) with -bert, -helm, rich to get male names, or with -linde, -lotte, -liese, -trude, -hilde (and more) to get female names. see wikipedia for it :)
@HerbertLandei 4 жыл бұрын
A funny one is "Dieter" (from "Dietrich"). Then there are some hard to pronounce names like Achim, Joachim or Jürgen. Sometimes you find "germanized" versions, like "Maik" instead of "Mike". When I was a child I didn't like my name "Daniel", but today I'm glad it's common and easy to pronounce in English.
@irian42 4 жыл бұрын
In Northern Germany we have some nice names: Bente, Fenja, Frieda, Jana, Jule, Nele (all female), Heiko, Henning, Jan, Jannis, Jens, Lasse, Nils, Fabian, Sören, Uwe (male)
@Baccatube79 4 жыл бұрын
Nele is just short for Cornelia, and I find it very childish to call a girl thus without the option of having a grown-up name. Same counts for Jule (Julia) A woman from her 20s onwards shouldn't have a baby name... Fabian is a Roman/Latin name and is not explicitly Northern German. Jannis is the transcription of Γιάννης, the Greek form of Johannes, and thus not Northern, either.
@irian42 4 жыл бұрын
@@Baccatube79 All of those are among the most common names in Northern Germany, including Fabian and Jannis (they exist elsewhere as well but that wasn't the point). And Nele in that form constantly tops the charts of names in Hamburg, so no, it's not just short for Cornelia (anymore). And Jule is so common for young women I have NO idea what you are talking about.
@stefanmeinicke4239 4 жыл бұрын
I would say, out of those names, only Bente, Fenja, (maybe) Frieda, Lasse and Sören are truly typical for northern (northwest to be exact) Germany. I've lived in Thuringia, Saxony, Berlin and now Mecklenburg and all those other names are really common throughout.
@tamaraaelbrecht1718 4 жыл бұрын
@@Baccatube79 I never knew that Nele is short for Cornelia. Here in Belgium I don't know anyone who's called Cornelia, but I know serveral who are called Nele. It is a common name here. Nobody sees it as a childish name.
@IronIck45 4 жыл бұрын
@@stefanmeinicke4239 I know Lasse through my contact to sweden, and find out this is a swedish form to Lars (Lauretius) , like Sebbe is Sebastian, Bosse -Bo, Mikke-Michael etc.
@cake.mp4 4 жыл бұрын
Frau Wamprechtshammer shows us your Videos sometimes they are really cool 😁👍
@michaelmuller4746 4 жыл бұрын
Many years ago I had a German tour guide in Alaska with the name Manfred, called Manni. He always answered on the phone with “My name is Manni“ (Money). 🤣
@WienerVL 4 жыл бұрын
Isnt Manni in Ice Age?
@michaelmuller4746 4 жыл бұрын
WienerVL No, he didn't have long teeth and wasn't that hairy either. 😉
@Wildcard71 4 жыл бұрын
Manni makes the world go round.
@flauschschlangepictures2893 4 жыл бұрын
Manfred "Manni" the mammoth from Ice Age :) Never heard "Cord" before. And don't worry about not knowing names, I've lived all my life in Germany, which is more than 30 years, and a couple of years ago I still learned some new German names I'd never heard before.
@gluteusmaximus1657 4 жыл бұрын
I'm so happy you did not ask for Waltraut, Brunhilde, Ignaz or Lothar.;-)
@jackybraun2705 4 жыл бұрын
Someone may have said this but Gatte is not just "husband" but "spouse". If it's the wife alone, it's "Gattin"
@silkwesir1444 4 жыл бұрын
this is wrong. "Gatte" is clearly and definitely male. I know a lot of times the male form is used as a generic form, but that's not the case with the word "Gatte".
@jackybraun2705 4 жыл бұрын
@@silkwesir1444 I meant that if you are speaking of a couple, you say "die Ehegatten Schmidt". When you are speaking of the wife alone you say Herr Schmitt and seine Gattin". It's not wrong in this part of the world but as we are finding out, they speak a completely different German in other parts of the country.
@Sailor-Dave 4 жыл бұрын
Strangely enough, one of my favorite movies as a young child was the WWII movie "The Enemy Below" with Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens. I always remember the sturdy first mate on the German submarine named "Heinie", a nickname for Heinz, I'm sure. I never knew what the words were to the morale-lifting song the Germans sang as they were engaging in their cat-and-mouse attacks with the American destroyer, but I knew that it was an act of bravado in the face of terror and possible death. A similar movie, "Das Boot", was entirely in German with subtitles.
@adrianheeler 4 жыл бұрын
I think a lot of kids that were born in 97/98/99 got named Moritz, because i guess that was just a popular name to give your kid at that time. At least i had a lot of Moritzs in all the years i went to school and i was born in 98 :)
@thomasp.5057 3 жыл бұрын
I have a colleague named "Rainer" and the name of my a deceased uncle was "Reiner". Another "Reiner" is "Reiner Calmund", at present a manager of Laverkusen soccer team ("Bayer Leverkusen"). And perhaps you have heard about the singer / songwriter "Reinhard May". So theese are 3 different names.
@Release.91 4 жыл бұрын
Interesting Video. As I am from Germany, i knew all the names except for Cord. Of course you can use the nickname "Berti" for everyone, who wants you to :) So if someone is called Robert or maybe just Bert, you might also here him say "My Friends call me Berti" or something like that :) I really like the Videos, where you tell us about the differences between Germany and the US. Keep up the good work :)
@parvaneyekuchulu 4 жыл бұрын
We had two Moritzes in our Abiturjahrgang (120 students altogether) in Brandenburg and my boyfriend from Niedersachsen is also a Moritz. So I'd say Moritz is pretty common. :)
@tobulax 4 жыл бұрын
Käthe is pronounced with a long Ä. This sound is a little confusing because Germans don't really agree on how to pronounce it: For some it's the same as long E, for some it's like the short Ä just pronounced longer.
@leandra4268 4 жыл бұрын
Yup, the way you pronounce it, it sounds like Kette meaning necklace :D
@erictrumpler9652 4 жыл бұрын
It's really quite similar to the English Kate....
@dyleila 4 жыл бұрын
Check out Käthe Kruse, she "invented" the first dolls for Children.
@actua99 4 жыл бұрын
Interesting... Moritz, Meike, Reiner and Jupp exist in Dutch as well, just as Maurits, Maaike, Reinier and Joep or Youp. Gerd also exists in Dutch, like former mayor of Maastricht Gerd Leers, although it's more frequently spelled with a _t_ instead of a _d_, like in my name Gertjan. Lieselotte also exists in Dutch, although parts of the name are more frequently used: Lies or Lotte. Another one I was surprised to find in German is Bente, which I'd always presumed was really Dutch. Odd, that :)
@silkwesir1444 4 жыл бұрын
well, German and Dutch are closely related, so I don't think that's very surprising.
@loeffel999 4 жыл бұрын
I live in Germany close to the border to NL. To me Dutch sounds like Hochdeutsch (German) Plattdeutsch (old "traditional" regional german) and English combined. Even before I learned Dutch I could read a lot of it because it's so similar :)
@LaPingvino 4 жыл бұрын
and then my name, Joop :)
@franzo.k.3914 4 жыл бұрын
Jupp or Sepp, full form of the name should be: Joseph. But I dont know Jupp or Sepp as given names.
@FrikaWies 4 жыл бұрын
My grandfather‘s name was Engelbert. When he was a child he was called Engerl. 👼 Later in life they called him Bertl.
@Elias-kj9rl 4 жыл бұрын
My name is Elias, in my generation it was very rare. But nowadays there are so much Elias in Germany. It is a verry common neme now.
@heinrichwolf4869 4 жыл бұрын
Cord also was a well known American car manufacturer (pre ww2).
@1973sonvis 4 жыл бұрын
Great video again! 👍🏻 But if you haven’t heard Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light, you must be from another planet 😄
@kolschejungimpott6962 3 жыл бұрын
Jupp is often used as a nickname for Josef in the area around cologne, the bavarian verion would be Sepp
@namenwerdenuberbewertet2948 4 жыл бұрын
Moritz is still pretty common here in Germany, I know at least 2 in my neighbourhood.
@jessali_ 4 жыл бұрын
Nathan Fillion plays a character called Rainer on Modern Family. He's Canadian, lol.
@pattymorriello586 4 жыл бұрын
I know Cord With an h Chord because one of my favorite guys from Glee tv show is Named Chord Overstreet I think he was name that for music and the order he was born in
@lichtgestalt609 4 жыл бұрын
Sometimes we have different short forms for the same long name, and these are often regional. For example, where I come from, "Konrad" becomes "Kor" (with a long o, like "Kohr"). "Georg" can be shortened to "Schorsch" or "Gerch" or "Gorch". Waltraud can be "Wally" or "Traudl". Be sure to pronounce them all in the German way :-) Yes, you can also have the short form as the official name.
@philipkudrna5643 4 жыл бұрын
In Austria, the nickname for somebody called „Joseph“ would be „Peppi“ or „Sepp“
@Leenapanther 4 жыл бұрын
In Switzerland it is Sepp. Most famous person would be Sepp Blatter former Fifa President.
@Alias_Anybody 4 жыл бұрын
I've also heard Joshi.
@EMvanLoon 4 жыл бұрын
As a Dutch, Manfred definitely sound typical German, Meike is common in the Netherlands, as well as Gerd/Gert/Gerard. Lieselotte/liselotte is pretty common here as well.
@pragerrattler220780 4 жыл бұрын
Cord is a fabric, juppi i like. Franz Josef, uschi, ursel, but these names are quite old Fashion names. Rudolf, Marthilde , lilo short for lieselotte.
@Al69BfR 4 жыл бұрын
Born in Germany and living here for over 50 years now, I never ever heard Cord as a name before. For me Cord is a kind of fabric you make trousers of.
@carbon-basedlifeform4314 4 жыл бұрын
I would say all of them except the abbreviations like Cord oder Jupp are common in Germany. Most of them are names of the around 50's Generation... Many names have "generation cycles" here, means they become popular again after being "out" for 1 to 3 generations. An example is Quirin; Quirins nowadays are either in their 80's or just had their 5th birthday...
@BaldJean 4 жыл бұрын
"Jupp" is very common in the Ruhr region, but only as a short version of "Josef" or "Joseph". The brother of my (Friederike) father was named "Joseph", but everyone called him "Jupp". A famous example for "Jupp" is German soccer trainer Jupp Heynckes, but he was actually christened Joseph too.
@DSP16569 4 жыл бұрын
Like Uwe and Dirk in the end 60s early 70s and today totally unusual.
@jhdix6731 4 жыл бұрын
@@BaldJean Totally agree. In Bavaria he would have been called Sepp.
@NantokaNejako 4 жыл бұрын
Quirin?! Seriously?! Must be a Bavarian thing i guess, like Severin and Korbinian and the like..., yes I know a 5 year old Korbinian in Bavaria, lol
@1005sally 4 жыл бұрын
Moritz is a really common german name 🙌🏻 one of my best friends is called Moritz but he goes by „Mo“ I feel like a lot of names u mention in the video are more or less old fashioned names here 😄 most of those names you wouldn’t give to a child born now 🙈
@markseare9274 3 жыл бұрын
Double names is a thing in Germany. I've seen Franzjoseph, Hansfritz, Hansdieter, and Joaichem--a really good friend of mine. BTW, Aichem is a German name too. Beat, pronounced „Bä - aht," (referring to another one of your videos about quotation marks) is another different name I didn't know existed. Beat is generally, a male name, and Beate is a girls name. I heard „Blader" when I lived in Switzerland. Of course, my favorite German name is „Adelgunda," my great, gr ..., gr ..., gr..., ......... Grandma.
@davidkerber99 4 жыл бұрын
don't you know Manfred Mann? A well known musician
@antibuergerlich3283 4 жыл бұрын
Awwww i love the name käthe
@markhesse2928 4 жыл бұрын
Years ago, I knew a guy in my small midwest US town by the name of Manfred. We all called him "Nanferd," and he was of Norwegian ancestry.
@dettmardencker7430 4 жыл бұрын
Hi Dana, I´m a northern german. You´ll find tons of strange names here, especially in the frisian regions. My Brother is named Jasper Rickmer and a sister Peerke Ragna. I have friends named Enno and Onno, Tjalk, Wiebke, Triesche, and so on. Have a nice day! Dettmar
@m.sunday3852 4 жыл бұрын
I've mainly heard 'Berti' as a short version for Robert. Just 'Bert' is a name too:)
@Aldo_Regozzani 3 жыл бұрын
Try listenning to the Oldies from the 50's and 60's and you will have a very new variety of german names like Anneliese, Margot, Catharina, Marita, Rosita, Lotte, Elfriede, Hannes, Huber ...
@GrinsendesDingens 4 жыл бұрын
I know a few named Moritz but they are often just called 'Mo'
@marcelkockel7999 4 жыл бұрын
Two of my best friends are brothers and one is called Max and the other is called Moritz .... Awesome !! Another friend is called Hannah and she studied in Japan. In Japan Hannah is not a name, it´s the word for flower. The Japanese kept saying that their name is so cute.
@brunomolinaro1286 3 жыл бұрын
My grandparents are named Manfred and Hildegard, LOL!
@00Trisa00 3 жыл бұрын
39 years ago I was born in Germany and nearly all my life I lived here- and I never heard "Cord" as a name. I only know "Corduroy pants" (Cordhosen). All the other names I know. Names I heard for the first time when I was aduld: Reinhild, Mats, Bela, Wendelin, Silas,, Euthymia, Praxedis, Malou, Tialda,
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