Names which are German but not Austrian and vice versa?

[Ruggery]

Correct, Frisian names. I would add those:

Reemt, Tjark, Onno, Okka, Trientje, Jupp, Fokko, Wilke, Renske, Ubbo, Hauke

Some of those names are also popular in the Netherlands because East Frisian people are genetically and linguistically closer to Dutch than to German.
One of my ex boyfriends was Dutch for example and his name was also Jupp.

Are there pan-Germanic names?

[rothaer]

Ronny, Maik and Mandy are thinking you are overly zealous in this regard.

Respectively their parents...

That are typical GDR names btw.

[rothaer]

Correct, Frisian names. I would add those:

Reemt, Tjark, Onno, Okka, Trientje, Jupp, Fokko, Wilke, Renske, Ubbo, Hauke

Some of those names are also popular in the Netherlands because East Frisian people are genetically and linguistically closer to Dutch than to German.
One of my ex boyfriends was Dutch for example and his name was also Jupp.

Today's Ostfriesisch („East Frisian“) is actually not a Frisian but a German dialect. The name may be somewhat misleading. The Frisian Ostfriesisch got lost in the time period 1400 - 1550 AD. Frisian is only spoken in the hatched areas here:



Btw. Jupp is Joseph. The Frisians are horribly distorting the full forms of names.

[Blondie]

Names of famous danube swabians:

Ludwig Aulich
Jakob Bleyer
Anton Dreher
Friedrich Fesl
Abraham Ganz
Karl Gundel
Paul Hörbiger
Jozef Schweidel
Hermann Wamberger
Georg Herhoff

To be honest, i have never heard any danuba swabian name that sounds scandinavian.

[rothaer]

You have the northern German full form Hinrich for Heinrich.

There's also a Germanic/German name Ludger that is almost exclusively used in Westphalia because it was a local saint (like Kilian in the Rhineland, the respective saint was an early Irish christian missionary, hence the somewhat odd name).

None of these will be used in Austria, I guess.

[rothaer]

Ferdinand is an Austria-specific name. It’s a somewhat unfortunate Germanic re-import from Spain (Fernando/Hernando), likely by the Habsburg connections, and that ultimately hails from the Visigoths. It will originally have been Frednand or alike and it should be Friednand in common German.

Regionally unspecific but another unfortunate, not to say culturally embarrassing, Germanic re-import is Franz. It’s derived from Franciscus von Assisi, which just had a Latinised form of the Germanic/German name Frank.

I'd love to clean up the mess if I got entitled to do! Maybe not yet as a law but as an official guide that name-calls all cultural arbitrariness!

[Blondie]

You have the northern German full form Hinrich for Heinrich.

There's also a Germanic/German name Ludger that is almost exclusively used in Westphalia because it was a local saint (like Kilian in the Rhineland, the respective saint was an early Irish christian missionary, hence the somewhat odd name).

None of these will be used in Austria, I guess.

You look like Tom Selleck

[Mr.G]

Roth,

I thought in your last avi that you looked like Justin Timberlake.

But I'm gonna disagree with Blondie on the Tom Selleck comment -- this one looks more like Burt Reynolds

[noricum]

... (like Kilian in the Rhineland, the respective saint was an early Irish christian missionary, hence the somewhat odd name).None of these will be used in Austria, I guess.

Kilian does exist in Austria and actually became somewhat popular during the last few years as it's seen as a pleasant-sounding name.

I'd love to clean up the mess if I got entitled to do! Maybe not yet as a law but as an official guide that name-calls all cultural arbitrariness!

You'd be happy with my parents, aunts' and uncles "Boomer" names: Gerald, Waltraud, Sieghard, Manfred, Gerhard, Sieglinde, etc.
I hope for your own well-being that your name is up to your extraordinary standards!
As for Swiss-specific names, since they were not yet mentioned, I can only think of Ruedi and Urs.

[rothaer]

You'd be happy with my parents, aunts' and uncles "Boomer" names: Gerald, Waltraud, Sieghard, Manfred, Gerhard, Sieglinde, etc.

Yes!

I hope for your own well-being that your name is up to your extraordinary standards!

No, it's not. Unfortuinately my name has no German etymology but it's also no modern thing.

As for Swiss-specific names, since they were not yet mentioned, I can only think of Ruedi and Urs.

I'd add Beat.