Living in an English speaking country and having a surname containing an umlaut I can tell you first hand how it feels getting your points chopped off.

German boy names with umlauts. Names are names and if a name contains an Umlaut written in the form of oeueae you cant simply replace them with öüä. Many German names with Umlauted us came to be spelled with an i ie or ee and pronounced either with a. One of the better known German names for boys this one means wealthy.

Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions especially in Lower Saxony where it is more common than Müller. Depending on your OS there are different ways to type the acented characters. Showing names from Colbert to Dennis.

Schäfer Schröder or Müller. Rather than doing something like a dictionary attack on potential names which is possible using census and birth records you might take a look at patterns of names in this case German names on the whole and look for things that you can use to identify things that are definitely not names. Finally if youre looking for a specific baby name or nationality make sure to check out one of our many other categories.

1327 German Baby Boy Names With Meanings Germans observe their naming pattern and culture as with many other countries and traditions. Click here to see names from I to Z. A German vowel u is ordinarily pronounced as an English long u but when an Umlaut is added it becomes a difficult-to-render-in-English cross between a long u and a long e.

German girl names. Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Click a name to add to your German baby list.

German girls names tend to change in popularity more frequently than the boys and so certain traditional names on the list may not be as common or popular as some of the traditional boy names. The thing which makes them different from traditional surnames however is that when a person moved onto a farm he would change his name to that of the farm a name which usually came from the farms original owner. Selected Jan 6 2017 by Marty Franke.