And finally, to get a feel as to what Swedes are naming their babies these days, here is a little sample of Swedish birth announcements from all over the country.

What I found particularly fascinating is that names that Americans would never dream of naming their children, such as Agnes, Hedvig, Helga, Hilda, Elmar & Vilmer are extremely trendy. In the United States, these names have the reputation of being too old and stodgy to use on a child. Personally, I have always thought of names like Emma, Abigail and Matilda to be on par with the above.

Another interesting trend, albeit not that common, but worth mentioning is the usage of place names such as Havannah (a popular vacation destination for many Scandinavians, perhaps its beaches are the inspiration), Savannah, Sienna and Texas! I have not even seen Texas used in the States.

Smush names ending in -lie like Novalie, Tuvalie have become exceedingly trendier.

British names also seem to be leaving an impact, names like William, Liam, Colin and James.

And of course the revival of Old Norse mythological names that have not really seen wide usage since the Middle Ages (Freja & Loke)

Note that middle names are quite optional in Sweden, it is most likely that the majority of Swedish children are not given middle names, but when they are, the parents usually go all out.

Enjoy!

Siblings are in parenthesis

Flickor (girls)

Agnes
Agnes Sigrid Lovisa
Aila Isobel
Aimee (Anton & Petter)
Alba
Alma
Almy
Althea
Angelina Alma (Davilito)
Anna Linnea (Iris)
Astrid
Belle
Bianca (Ambra)
Bianca (Wilhelm)
Blomma
Bonnie
Celine (Elias)
Cornelia (Hugo & Oliver)
Ebba
Eden (Ida & Julia)
Edie (Elvis)
Edith (Elina)
Elina (Jesper)
Eline
Ellie (Robin, Matilda, Hampus, Heidi & Lova)
Elsa
Elvira
Emma-Ida
Emma-Lisa (Wilma)
Emmie (Erika & Elise)
Enya (Isabell & Nathalia)
Esmeralda
Estelle (Elvira & Emmie)
Esther
Evelina (Joel)
Fanny (Fabian & Felix)
Felicia (Alexander)
Filippa (Petronella)
Freja
Frida
Gabriella (Samuel)
Hanna-Freja (Esbjörn)
Harriet (Lydia)
Havannah
Hedda (Erik & Emil)
Hedvig
Helena
Helga (Beata)
Hilda (Linnea)
Hilla (Karl)
Hilma
Holly (Lucas)
Ida (Maja)
Idde (Meja)
Ika
Indra
Ines (Signe)
Ingrid (Märtha)
Iris
Irma (Kerstin & Ture)
Isa (Altea)
Isabella
Jill (Tindra & Kevin)
Jolene
Joline
Josefine (Jacob)
Juni
Karin (Viktor)
Karolina (Leonard, Ludvig & Esmeralda)
Keila
Klara
Lee
Lilith
Lilly (Filippa & Noah)
Lina (Olov)
Linn (Liam)
Liv Alde (Evert)
Liv Bridget (Erik, Arthur & Ossian)
Liv Edit Maria
Livia
Lo (Arvid)
Louize (Morgan, Gizela, Caspar & Izabel)
Lova (Lilly)
Lovisa Marianne Margareta
Lovis
Luna
Madicken (Oscar)
Malí (Liam)
Malva Emalia
Maria (William & Elias)
Matilda
Maud Evelina (Liv)
Medelen (Dennis & Lina)
Meja (Alexander)
Mikaela (Simone)
Milla Elisabeth
Millea (Julius)
Minna
Minó
Miranda (Hampus & Embla)
Mirjam (Amanda)
Moa
My
Nellie (Maja)
Nora (Nils)
Norah Anna Sofia (Theo)
Nova
Novalie
Ottilia (Ossian)
Polly
Rut (Tyra)
Saga Ada
Saga Gullveig Moa
Sally (Molly)
Sanna (Emmy)
Selma
Signe (Agnes)
Sigrid Martha (Linnea, Joseph, David, Magnus & Tobias)
Sigrid Matilda
Siri
Smilla (Embla, Idun, Loke & Eira)
Stella (Saga)
Svea Hilda Maria (Frans Oskar & Alva Linnea)
Tilde Cornelia
Timja
Tindra (Wilma)
Tuva (Isak & Albin)
Tuvali (Joel)
Vera (Julius & Jennifer)
Vilda (Tuva)
Vilma (Anton)
Viola (Alice)
Wilja (Tilly & Lucas)
Willa
Wilma

Pojkar (boys)

Albin
Alfred
Algot (Caisa, Alwin & Alma)
Almer
Alve (Pax)
Armand (Ingrid)
Aron (Bastian)
Arvid
Axel (Arvid)
Backa Sven Anton (Joel)
Birk (Embla)
Björn
Bosse
Brodde
Cain (Liam, Liza, Noel & Colin)
Carl (Klara, Julia & Patrik)
Carl Martti “Calle”
Casper (Alvin)
Colin
Conrad
Devin
Dexter
Ebbe (Majken)
Elliot Bo August
Elis (Tuva)
Elmer (Algot)
Elton (Johanna)
Emmet (Malte)
Eston
Evert (Josefin & Carolin)
Fabian
Folke
Frans
Freddy-Lo (Melker-Maximus)
Gunnar
Gustav (Elvira & Siri)
Gusten (Vilgot & Vera)
Hampus (Ida)
Hannes (Ellen & Joel)
Harry (Kajsa & Klara)
Heike
Helmer (Maja)
Henning
Herman
Hjalmar
Ivar (Arvid)
James (Elin & Leo)
Jens (Jonathan)
Knut
Kristoffer (Kimberly & Katelinn)
Linus
Loke (Lova)
Ludvig (Emelie)
Malte
Manfred (Micke, Issa & Danne)
Marius (Petrus & Julie)
Marwin (Ronja, Isabella, Felicia, Julia & Yana)
Mattis
Melwin
Milton (Melvin)
Mio
Nataniel
Neo
Nikodemus
Nilas (Adrian)
Nils
Nino Angelo
Noel
Oliver (Thea-Lies)
Ossian
Otto
Petter (Olivia)
Pontus
Rio
Sigge (Julia, Gustav & Vilmer)
Sixten
Texas
Theo
Theodor (Stephanie, Emilia & Adrian)
Tigris (Naemi)
Timo (Irja)
Torbjörn “Tobban” (Anton, Arvid, Alma & Ingemar)
Tore (Signe, Alvar, Astrid & Einar)
Ture (Sixten)
Truls
Valter (Alf)
Vide
Viggo
Vilgot
Vilmer (Klara)
Wille (Maja)
Wilton (Eliza)
Zackarias
Zack (Zebban & Zoë)
Zeldon

There is a fairly large Swedish minority in Finland. Swedo-Finns speak Swedish as their first language, below is a list of birth announcements as found in the Swedish Newspapers in Finland.

Flickor

• Alicja Ellinor
• Amaya
• Astrid Gega Louise (Alexander)
• Ava
• Bernadeta
• Edit Agnes Sylvia (Linda, Emilia & Rufus)
• Ellinor
• Emelie Liisa Sabina
• Heini Terhi (Fanny & Liam)
• Helmi (Heini, Liam & Fanny)
• Ines Helmi
• Janina
• Julia Elin Anita
• Julia Signe Kristina
• Kiara
• Lia
• Lilja
• Linnéa Del Carmen
• Liv Grace
• Liv Maria Kristina (Katrina)
• Lovisa Emma Irene (Elizabeth)
• Malin
• Melvina (Miranda)
• Milja (Axel)
• Nikita (Nicolas & Samantha)
• Sara Linnéa
• Sigrid (Röskva)
• Simone (William)
• Siri Hilde Marie
• Tindra Ida Elisabet
• Vanessa Tyra Simone (Tasha & Kayla)

Pojkar

• Albin Leif Mikael
• Allan
• Andrej Antero
• Assar
• Atte
• Bror Erik Viking (Frans)
• Casper Sigurd
• Desmond
• Gunnar Elias Gabriel
• Hector Lorentz Arvid
• Hilding (Valter)
• Igor
• Jack Nicholas
• John Casper
• Kasper Eero Leander
• Konrad Karl Gunnar (Casimir & Oliver)
• Sammi
• Vemund Olav (Jesper, David & Silje)
• Ville Onni Oskari (Noora)
• Zeb (Fia, Jenny & Fredrik)

Twins

• Albert & Herbert
• Lana & Cilia (Kira)
• Elvi & Ilon (girls)