Looking for a Dutch boys middle name...

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Looking for a Dutch boys middle name...
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Tue, 10-12-2004 - 10:26am
Hi All!

I'm just 6 weeks pregnant with baby #3 and we are already talking names. We are looking for Dutch names. Our last name is tenBroek (my father in law is Dutch) For a boy we are going with Jacobus (family name) and for a girl we have Annika Katrine (our girl name from last baby, who turned out to be a boy named Nicolaas) I'm looking for a good strong middle name to go with Jacobus. I don't really like the shortenings for Jacobus (Jake, or Co, generally) so I want a middle name that we can use for the name we CALL him. I'm leaning towards Jacobus Alexander, and calling him Xander. DH isn't so sure. Does anyone have other ideas of names with a Dutch background?? BTW his siblings are DeOrian Leigh (Dori for short... DeOrian is an Armenian family surname from mother in laws side) and Nicolaas Zivnuska (Nic for short... another family name from the Dutch side). Any thoughts are appreciated!

Edie #3 due 06/06/05

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Tue, 10-12-2004 - 11:43am
Here are some Dutch names from my baby name book.

Gerrit*

Hendrick

Jurrien

Lucas

Pieter

Ramone

Laurens* nn Laur(Lore)

Marten*

Schuyler

Van*

*my favorites with Jacobus and other sons' names.

Hope you see something you like.

Best of luck,

Dana

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Tue, 10-12-2004 - 1:35pm
How about Tymon? (Dutch version of Timothy.) Other family names (in my very Dutch family) include Jan/Jon/Janson (pronounced yaan), Pieter, Henrick, Koenraad and Schuyler (pronounced SHY-ler or SKY-ler) HTH!

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Wed, 10-13-2004 - 9:01am
I like Marten.
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Wed, 10-13-2004 - 12:00pm
Finally have time to add- What about Schuyler? Dori, Nic & Sky is adorable!

I like Marten shortened to Mart for nn.

One other- Jacobus Kort? Dori, Nic, & Kort...

Good luck! Ginger

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Tue, 10-19-2004 - 2:25pm
Pieter is my brother in laws name! I like it, but we're not so sure we want two Pieter's running around. We'll think about it!
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Tue, 10-19-2004 - 2:27pm
ooh, Tymon is cool! I'll have to run that one by DH!
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Tue, 10-19-2004 - 3:33pm
What about Willem? Or Liam? These are popular versions of William in the Dutch circles I run around in.
Shelly