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I just found some charts of Swedish name trends and thought they were quite interesting.
ETA: All spelling variants are included

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Girls names increasing the most in 2007:

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1 Lilly 70%
2 Livia 65%
3 Natalie 63%
4 Siri 47%
5 Edith 43%
6 Svea 41%
7 Signe 35%
8 Mira 34%
9 Molly 32%
10 Elvira 30%
11 Ingrid 27%
12 Sigrid 27%
13 Nellie 26%
14 Felicia 25%
15 Freja 25%
16 Engla 22%
17 Märta 20%
18 Ester 20%
19 Nova 19%
20 Vera 18%

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Boys names increasing the most in 2007
1 Sigge 70%
2 Dante 62%
3 Milton 61%
4 Wilmer 48%
5 Maximilian 39%
6 Malte 38%
7 Loke 36%
8 Charlie 36%
9 Noel 34%
10 Vidar 33%
11 Aron 26%
12 Josef 19%
13 Theodor 17%
14 Neo 16%
15 Liam 15%
16 Herman 14%
17 Svante 14%
18 Vincent 12%
19 Nils 11%
20 Otto 11%

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Girls names decreasing the most in 2007
1 Agnes -33%
2 Linn -30%
3 Tilda -27%
4 Angelina -26%
5 Johanna -26%
6 Lina -26%
7 Jennifer -24%
8 Lova -21%
9 Hanna -21%
10 Tindra -20%
11 Cornelia -19%
12 Nicole -19%
13 Thea -18%
14 Emma -18%
15 Alexandra -16%
16 Anna -16%
17 Evelina -15%
18 Sofia -15%
19 Alva -14%
19 Tova -14%

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Boys names decreasing the most in 2007
1 Christoffer -22%
2 Hampus -20%
3 Linus -18%
4 Simon -17%
5 Robin -17%
6 Pontus -17%
7 Tim -17%
8 Max -16%
9 Johan -16%
10 Samuel -15%
11 Mattias -15%
12 Alexander -14%
12 Oscar -14%
14 Joel -13%
15 Filip -12%
16 Rasmus -11%
17 Kevin -11%
18 Daniel -11%
19 Gabriel -9%
20 Lucas -9%

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Any thoughts? To me it seems like the classic boys names are getting less popular in favour for more 'exotic' names. Classic Scandinavian names seems to be popular for girls.

This message was edited 11/2/2008, 7:20 AM