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Help[Opinions] Kai and Gerda
What do you think of Kai for a boy and Gerda for a girl?
I read 'The Snow Queen' and these are the names of the main characters.
Kai is pronounced KY and Gerda sounds more like GEHR-da (I watched the movie afterwards and I think the story was written in Danish originally).
I read 'The Snow Queen' and these are the names of the main characters.
Kai is pronounced KY and Gerda sounds more like GEHR-da (I watched the movie afterwards and I think the story was written in Danish originally).
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In a German-language environment, I like them both very much. Or, presumably, a Danish one, but outside Denmark there don't seem to be any, for practical purposes. I wouldn't use them myself, as I've got no ancestral/cultural links and there are way too many English names I'd use first. But they are good.
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Yeah, that fairy tale was written by famed Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen.
In Danish Kai is named Kay, pronounced as KY as you also said. Gerda the same as you said also. That said, both Kai and Gerda are very dated in Denmark, as in you'll rarely see people born after the 1950s named it. For my generation, I was born in 1977, it's what our parents and grandparents and earlier generations were named as given names. I don't care for them at all.
Well, I do like Kai in other origins and meanings, like in the Chinese and the Hawaiian ways. But that's also it.
In Danish Kai is named Kay, pronounced as KY as you also said. Gerda the same as you said also. That said, both Kai and Gerda are very dated in Denmark, as in you'll rarely see people born after the 1950s named it. For my generation, I was born in 1977, it's what our parents and grandparents and earlier generations were named as given names. I don't care for them at all.
Well, I do like Kai in other origins and meanings, like in the Chinese and the Hawaiian ways. But that's also it.
This message was edited 9/10/2018, 3:01 PM
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