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[Opinions] Swedish celebrity BA: Melchior
Edward Blom, a Swedish gastronome/historian/media personality/etc, had a son recently. A while ago he revealed some of his favourite names for the baby: Polyhymnia and Melkisedek (see http://www.behindthename.com/submit/name/melchizedek). His wife Gunilla had vetoed those however, and now he's announced that the baby's name is Melchior. Still unusual (the more common Swedish form is Melker), but not quite as eccentric. :) Opinions?Melkisedek/Melchizedek is a name I associate with a rat in A Little Princess, because that's the only time I've seen it used. I think he's better off with Melchior ... Both Melkisedek and Polyhymnia are at least theoretically awesome though. :)
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Melchior has a very strong association for me- it's the name of the main character in the musical Spring Awakening. I'm not sure how well it would work over here in the US, but maybe as a middle name it could work.
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I like Melchior! I can't stand Edward Blom though, and I thought they would go with something a bit more old fashioned.
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Well, I guess there are worse biblical names, he could have been Zerubbabel, Methuselah, Bakbuk or Harhor...
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Or Habakkuk. I wonder if that would have been allowed?
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You mean because it includes a dirty word? ;)
At least there are no Habbakkuks in Sweden according to SCB (Statistic Sweden).
There are 69 Melchiors in Sweden, including two women, but they only have it as their middle name. Of the 67 male Melchior, only 9 use it as their first name.
There are 3 Melkisedek, but only one person who use it as his first name.
No Polyhymnia.
One guy called Metusalem (the Swedish version of Methuselah), but it's just a middle name.

This message was edited 5/28/2015, 12:20 PM

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I see that that one Metusalem has a very short and common first name. Good for him. And unsurprisingly, he's from the "Bible Belt" area. ;)
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I love Melchior, it's absolutely fantastic. Melker is more common, and it's not bad either, but I prefer Melchior.
Polyhymnia and Melkisedek would have been too much for a real person.
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I love it. I think Polyhymnia and Melkisedek would have been too much for the baby. I see that Melker is quite common in Sweden, so he shouldn’t have any problems, but still gets an awesome name.
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I kind of like it! It looks better on paper than spoken but it's pretty good for a celeb baby name. Definitely better than Melkisedek.
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