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Solbritt is fairly ugly but oddly appealing. Do you know what it means? Also, how is Gry pronounced?My favorites:
Alice
Elin
Elina and Lucas
Adam
Emma
Maia and Ellen
Isabella and Emilia
Isabelle (prefer Isabel)
Julia and Ellen
Julia and William
Lily
Linnéa
Olivia
Signe
Sofia
Elias
Mateo
James
Joel and Oliver
Jonatan and Josefin, but not as siblings
Liam
Lukas
William and Isak
Noah
Theodor and Hanna
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Solbritt is a combination of "sol", meaning "sun", and Britt. Sol-Britt is another common spelling.
Gry has a rolled R and the Y is pronounced like in French "rue" or German "für".
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EbbaWhat's with Ebba? Is this an old name that's never gone out of style or is it newly trendy? What in your opinion would be the British/American equivalent?
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Ebba is an old Swedish name that has gotten more and more popular over the last 20 years or something like that. Dunno about a British/American equivalent...
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SolbrittWould that rhyme with "hall" "street"?
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No, we're sort of inconsistent with our O's. :P "pool" "Brit", rather.
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Oh, thanks; very strange, to my ear, but interesting. :)

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Very nice, overall. Thea, Elina, Elsa, Adrian, Oliver and Teo / Theo are the standouts to me.
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Great to see:(Adam, Malin) (Julia)
Emma
(Saga)
Isabella (Emilia)
Julia
Linnéa
Sofia
Svea (Filippa)
(Julian, Bastian)
Zoe Elias
Emil (Wanja) -I like Vanja. Would Wanja be pronounced the same and is it used much?
Emilio (Maia, Mateo)
James
Liam
Lukas
(Molly) (Selma)
Noah
Viggo (Agaton)
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W is treated as just a fancy way of writing V in Swedish, so yes. It's almost exclusively female here: there are 5219 women named Vanja or Wanja - not very common but not that uncommon either - but only 59 men.
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