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Category Archives: Swedish

Top Fifty Names for Sweden (Girls)

12 Monday Mar 2012

Posted by Bree in names, popular, Swedish

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The common Blackbird, Sweden's national bird, by Marco Hebing

1. Maja
2. Alice
3. Julia
4. Linnéa
5. Wilma
6. Ella
7. Elsa
8. Emma
9. Alva
10. Olivia
11. Molly
12. Ebba
13. Klara
14. Nellie
15. Agnes
16. Isabelle
17. Ida
18. Elin
19. Ellen
20. Moa
21. Emilia
22. Nova
23. Alma
24. Saga
25. Amanda
26. Isabella
27. Lilly
28. Alicia
29. Astrid
30. Matilda
31. Tilde
32. Tuva
33. Stella
34. Elvira
35 Felicia
36. Tyra
37. Hanna
38. Sara
39. Vera
40. Thea
41. Freja
42. Lova
43. Meja
44. Selma
45. Signe
46. Ester
47. Lovisa
48. Ellie
49. Lea
50. Tilda

Top Fifty Names for Sweden (Boys)

07 Wednesday Mar 2012

Posted by Bree in popular, Swedish

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1. Oscar
2. William
3. Lucas
4. Elias
5. Alexander
6. Hugo
7. Oliver
8. Theo
9. Liam
10. Leo
11. Erik
12. Viktor
13. Emil
14. Isak
15. Axel
16. Filip
17. Anton
18. Gustav
19. Edvin
20. Vincent
21. Arvid
22. Albin
23. Ludvig
24. Melvin
25. Noah
26. Charlie
27. Max
28. Elliot
29. Viggo
30. Alvin
31. Alfred
32. Adam
33. Theodor
34. Olle
35. Wilmer
36. Benjamin
37. Simon
38. Nils
39. Noel
40. Jacob
41. Leon
42. Rasmus
43. Kevin
44. Linus
45. Casper
46. Gabriel
47. Jonathan
48. Milo
49. Melker
50. Felix

Gustav

15 Saturday Oct 2011

Posted by Bree in German, Halloween, names, Swedish, unusual

≈ 2 Comments

 

Gustav von Wangenheim as Thomas Hutter with Greta Schröder as Ellen Hutter in "Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens"

Meaning: Possibly “Staff of the Goths”
Gender: Male
Pronunciation: GOO-stahf, GUS-tahf
Origin: Scandinavian, German, Swedish
Other forms of the name: Gustave, Gustaf, Gustaaf, Gustavus, Gustavo

Gustav is a very sleek seductive kind of name to me. In Denmark it ranks at #13, in Norway, #100, and in Sweden, #18. There have been several hurricanes named Gustav, one being the devastating 2008 hurricane that caused 138 deaths in Haiti, as of 2009 the name Gustav was retired and is now replaced by Gonzalo. Gustav I o Sweden, or Gustav Vasa, was a sixteenth-century King of Sweden. He was the first monarch coming from the noble Vasa family, in traditional Swedish history he is referred to as the founder of modern Sweden. Gustav thought of himself as Moses, he believed Moses liberated his people and established a nation, just like him. Though Gustav was a tyrannical ruler and known for having a bad temper, he loved music and had a sly wit about him. He established what is now one of the oldest orchestras in the world, today it is called the Royal Swedish Opera. Gustave is the name of a famous Nile crocodile and is the largest crocodile ever seen in Africa. In 2004 he was estimated to be about sixty years old. He is known for the bullet scars on his head and body. In 1921 handsome German actor Gustav Von Wangenheim played the Jonathan Harker-esque character Thomas Hutter in “Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens” the famous movie based on Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. The name Gustav could possibly have come from the Slavic name Gostislav which means “Guest of Glory”.

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