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If I ask you what the most German (sounding) name is that you know, what would that be?

Asked by rebbel (35547points) May 7th, 2021

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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ucancallme_Al's avatar

Maximilian Schacmann.

SnipSnip's avatar

Schmidt
Steinway
Budweiser

chyna's avatar

Oscar Mayer.
I don’t know if it is German, but sounds like it could be.

elbanditoroso's avatar

Helmut Schmidt

Adolf Schickelgruber

janbb's avatar

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

JLeslie's avatar

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.

Cornelis1977's avatar

Johann Sebastian Bach.
Manfred von Richthofen.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
Siegfried, Helga or Frederick.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Gunther Dieter

stanleybmanly's avatar

Messerschmidt

jca2's avatar

Werner.

for a woman, Adelheid.

ragingloli's avatar

@jca2
There is a whole movie franchise about Werner

kritiper's avatar

Gunter. (Pronounced “Goonter”)

janbb's avatar

^^ I went to school with a guy with that name. I think his last name was Maneuver.

KNOWITALL's avatar

Our Amish communities have some neat German names like Joder. The first names are usually biblical. Like Mary Yoder.

Demosthenes's avatar

Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

(It’s those long and difficult-to-pronounce royal houses that I thought of first).

longgone's avatar

Gertfried Krusenbart-Wolfskropp?

It just has to have that beautifully raspy sound of doom.

chyna's avatar

^love it!

zenvelo's avatar

Werner Klemperer. Hochstetter.

KRD's avatar

My name is German.

Yellowdog's avatar

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.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Pst pst @Yellowdog she may have been Swiss or Czech.

Yellowdog's avatar

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)

Brian1946's avatar

Frankenschtinkle.

Kardamom's avatar

Klaus von Munchausen

bob_'s avatar

Fritz.

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SnipSnip's avatar

Von Herrman

Schröder

KRD's avatar

Klaus.

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