If I ask you what the most German (sounding) name is that you know, what would that be?
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The most iconic, (in)famous. Doesn’t have to be from Germany.
I’m Dutch and have a German sounding name, but as far as I know I don’t have/had relatives from my Eastern neighbours.
I say Schwarzenegger.
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Schmidt
Steinway
Budweiser
Oscar Mayer.
I don’t know if it is German, but sounds like it could be.
Helmut Schmidt
Adolf Schickelgruber
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
First name: Gunther
Last name: there are so many. Hermann, Schmidt, Schneider, just to name a few.
@chyna You made me curious about him. He was German. Born in Neresheim, Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire. Here’s the Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_F._Mayer It’s interesting.
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Manfred von Richthofen.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
Siegfried, Helga or Frederick.
Werner.
for a woman, Adelheid.
Gunter. (Pronounced “Goonter”)
^^ I went to school with a guy with that name. I think his last name was Maneuver.
Our Amish communities have some neat German names like Joder. The first names are usually biblical. Like Mary Yoder.
Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
(It’s those long and difficult-to-pronounce royal houses that I thought of first).
Gertfried Krusenbart-Wolfskropp?
It just has to have that beautifully raspy sound of doom.
Werner Klemperer. Hochstetter.
Andy Pandy.
(Obviously, I don’t know many German names).
In 8th and 9th grade, I did go steady, albeit briefly, with a girl whose last name was Fiser.
Pst pst @Yellowdog she may have been Swiss or Czech.
Doubt she was Swiss. She claimed to be German. but I suspect Czech since it is a Czechoslovakian form of a German surname.
She also had a pet Czechoslovakian Wolfhound, which was a dead giveaway.
(because she gave it away after it died)
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