The game of the name, Swedish edition

[Kitschum]

Can you guess the top 30 most popular names for Swedish newborns in 6 minutes? Well, probably not but now you can try.

If you get more than 5 I'll be impressed as I wouldn't expect Swedish people to get most of these right. Many of these seem pretty odd and unusual to me and I guess that's why they're popular with all the unique individuals of my generation.

QUIZZES BELOW, TRY THEM PLEASE!

Boys' names

http://www.sporcle.com/games/bidibam/sweden_babies_f

Girls' names

http://www.sporcle.com/games/bidibam/swedish_girl_names

Now that you've tried the quizzes (above), if you want to talk about weird baby names you can do that too. Moon Unit, anyone? I know there's much weirder out there.

[OzzyKP]

Sven
Bjorn
Frieda
Hilda
Eivind

[Al B. Sure!]

I don't think I even know 10 Swedish names to begin with... Sven, Olaf, Helga, Leif, Erik, Karl... hitting a wall here. Knute. Harald.

Way to be obscure, Kitschum.

[OzzyKP]

Hagar the horrible

[Al B. Sure!]

Odin. Thor. Loki. Do you guys actually name your kids that?

Gustav.

[Kitschum]

Did you try the quizes? Or was I unclear that's what you were supposed to do.

[OzzyKP]

Gustav!! I was trying for the life of me to come up with the name of that famous king. You definitely beat me.

[Kitschum]

We had two famous kings named Gustav. The first (Vasa) and the second, although you might be thinking of the second who got killed in Germany.

[OzzyKP]

Did you try the quizes? Or was I unclear that's what you were supposed to do.

Oh, I thought those links were for lists of the names. Which would take away all the fun of trying to guess. It was unclear that they were quizzes.

[Kitschum]

It should be clearer now.

[Al B. Sure!]

Did you try the quizes? Or was I unclear that's what you were supposed to do.

Was I unclear that I can't even think of 10 Swedish names to begin with let alone the top 30 per gender?

I suspect not many Apolytoners know more than a dozen Swedish names either.

[Kitschum]

Some are surprisingly similar to English names. Besides, you can wait 30 seconds and click the button for give up to see the answers.

[OzzyKP]

Yea, I cheated and hit the button and was surprised to see how many "normal" names that are common here. Is that because of American/English influence, or did some of those names come from Sweden?

[Kitschum]

I would say that many are common to Germany, France, Spain as well. But some are definitely due to recent British or American influence.

For instance, Kevin, although not in the top 30, is a surprisingly common name, and a sure sign the parents are on the lower rung of the social ladder.

[OzzyKP]

Also, I was surprised that some of the names AS & I came up with, which seem to be to be stereotypical Swedish (or perhaps Scandinavian) names weren't on the list. Are they traditional names that have gone out of favor? Did I/we pick the wrong set of vikings?