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What are you thoughts on Ellen? And what do you think of these combos with it from the 19th century Finland?

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Ellen Adele Cecilia
Ellen Alfhild Johanna
Ellen Armida
Ellen Dagmar Inez
Ellen Dagny
Ellen Elise Adele
Ellen Emerentia
Ellen Ester
Ellen Etti Onnea
Ellen Eugenie
Ellen Hedvig
Ellen Ida Mathilda
Ellen Jenny
Ellen Julie Lovise
Ellen Marianne
Ellen Martina
Ellen Pauline Henriette
Ellen Ragnhild
Ellen Sigrid Alinda
Ellen Siviä Sofia
Ellen Therese
Ellen Viola

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Agda Ellen Edit “Elli”
Anna Armas Ellen - Armas used to be a unisex name.
Cora Ellen Maria
Emma Ellen Jenny
Ilma Ellen Ottilia
Ingrid Emilia Anna Ellen
Rosa Ellen Sigrid

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Context:

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Most of these names belonged to the members of the Finnish-Swedish minority which explains the usage of more Scandinavian, Germanic and Indo-European names in general. Finnish was made the official language with Swedish in 1858 and during the latter half of the century people started to (re)use more "pure" Finnish names inspired by the national-romantic movement.

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The usage of native, traditional Finnish names was lost during the Christianization in the Middle Ages: so, the most popular names in Finland were and even still are Biblical and saint names, such as Maria, Helena, Sofia, Johannes and Mikael. These were the forms that were used in the official documents, but people made up and used more Finnish sounding variants and diminutives of them, for example Maija, Leena, Sohvi, Juhani and Mikko. Nowadays these forms are used independently and have lost their nickname status.

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