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Thanks for your response. My name isn't great in English speaking countries (hard to pronounce) and I don't want to pick a name for a child that won't work at all in an international setting. Val is not a bad nickname. Here it would probably be Valle.
I live in Sweden so it is not a weird name here, kind of old fashioned though, and not common at the moment. It didn't make the top 100 last year, but Vidar, Vilgot, and Vilhelm did and I think those and Valdemar were all very pretty common about 100 years ago so maybe Valdemar will return soon too. (Not that I necessarily need it to be a top 100 name)