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[Opinions] Swedish June BAs
Adele
Alice x2 (Stina, Hampus, Wilma) (Hugo)
Alma (Hugo, Elis)
Amanda (Olivia)
Annie (Arvid, Alice)
Clara
Dea
Ebba
Elina (Amber)
Ellinor (Andreas, Max)
Engel (Lova)
Engla (Williame, Saga)
Filippa
Isabelle (Oskar)
Judith (Algot, Hilma)
Juni x2 (Hugo, Eddie)
Leia (Troja)
Livia
Lykke
Mollie (Felicia, Filippa)
Molly (Ronja)
Nellie x2 (Thea)
Nova
Sella (Elisia)
Stella x2 (Savannah) (Chloé)
Tilda (Theo, Isak, Milo)
Älva (Benjamin, Melwin)Alvin (Filip)
August (Ida, Signe)
Ayden
Charlie
Clay
Ebbe (Tindra, Selma)
Einar (Irma, Noel)
Elias x3 (Hampus) (Isac)
Emilian (Lucian, Caesar)
Filip (Ludwig, Oliver)
Folke (Greta)
Hugo (Wilma, Simon)
Jack x2 (Cristofer, Jennifer, Sofia)
James (Nelson)
Kevin x2 (Micaela, Linnea)
Kjell
Liam
Lovin (Sion)
Lukas
Malte
Melvin (Teo)
Milo
Noah
Oskar (Gustav, Erik, Carl)
Rio
Sam (Thea, Max)
Wille (Hugo)
Vincent x2 (Viggo)
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I like:
Adele
Alice
Elis
Olivia
Annie
Clara
Elina
Andreas
Isabelle
Judith
Livia
Molly
Ronja
Thea - Love it.
Nova
Stella
Savannah
Theo
August
Signe
Charlie
Tindra
Noel
Elias
Lucian
Oliver
Greta
Simon
Jack
Jennifer
Sofia
James
Micaela
Linnea
Liam
Erik
Carl
Vincent
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There are quite a few names that I really like, but I have to say I love the sibset Judith, Algot and Hilma.
I also quite like August, Ida and Signe.Älva is interesting. Is this a variant of Elva?
Is Williame a boy or a girl (or a typo ;-) )?
Is Lovin a new "creation"?
Is Sella a short form of Marcella?Elias is rather popular in Sweden too, hm? ;-)
(Um, sorry for all those questions)
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Älva literally means "fairy" in Swedish.
Williame is a boy.
Lovin seems to have been around, very sporadically, since the 1800s. Probably Love + popular ending -in.
I don't know what Sella is - possibly made up.Yeah, Elias was 5th in 2011.And I like answering questions :)
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Aww, thanks for so patiently answering my questions! :-)
I have to admit I'm really intrigued with Älva. You see, I've never been too fond of Elva, I've always thought that Alva was a nice enough name, just not necessarily for my child. Älva on the other hand... must be the umlaut. I've taken a mysterious liking to umlauts recently ;-)So Älva is a word name (which I should have known, but oh well... ;-) ). This makes me ask even more questions.
How is Älva perceived in Sweden? I've read that Tindra for example is sometimes considered somewhat "tacky", is it the same with Älva?
Oh, and how about names like Vilda or Engla? Or maybe word names in general. I have a feeling that word names are way more common in Sweden than they are here (which is not really all that difficult seeing as we hardly have any (left) ;-) ).
So how are they perceived?
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I'm not Malin, but another Swede.
Most words names are considered "WT" in my opinion, including Älva, Vilda, Tindra, Ängla / Engla. This does not include word names like Bo, Björn, Sten, Stig etc, those are usually considered to be dated. I pronounce Elva and Älva the same, though it could be pronounced slightly different depending on where you live. Älva is unusual here in Sweden, only 218 women has this name, of which 73 has it as their FN. And Engla used to be more popular than it is now. I think it lost quite a lot of popularity after a very sad story a few years ago when a child named Engla was murdered.
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Thanks! :-)I don't make a whole lot of difference between e and ä pronunciation-wise either (well, there's a slight difference but really not all that much), it's just that I like the look of Älva so much better than Elva. Wow, that sounds shallow, hm? ;-)
Ah, too bad about Älva's "reputation", so maybe I have a new GP ;-)
On the other hand, with the huge wave of Scandinavian names here...Anyway, thanks for answering my questions, I truly appreciate it.
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Gah, I wrote a reply and then accidentally shut down the window...Anyway, Älva belong to those somewhat tacky word names, just like Vilda, Tindra and Vilja. Engla is older, it's been used for centuries, so it should be more accepted, like Saga and Liv. (Personally, I'm not so sure though. Even though I know it's old, the angel association automatically makes it rather tacky to me. :/)
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