We recently had our 20 week scan and found out that we are having a little boy, I am over the moon! The only problem is that now we are more seriously name brain storming I have realised that there are relaly no Swedish names for boys that I love. My OH was convinced the baby was a girl so we had concentrated on girls names and had some lovely girls names picked out.
I have a Swedish baby name book and these are the names that I would consider (but non jump out to me as being amazing)
Alf (reminds me of the guy from home and away)
Alvar (means from nature.. it is appropriate as the baby was conceived the month we were due to have IVF)
Elmer (the elephant?)
Frej (sounds too much like freja?)
rasmus (I like Erasmus but OH will only consider Rasmus, I don't want to call the baby part of a name.. if it was Erasmus my OH could still call him Rasmus, also I don't like the name "raz" as a nn.. it reminds me of "out on the raz" meaning going to pubs and getting drunk)
Sören
Teodor (I don't really like the gift from god meaning as we are not really religious but tio is a nice nn)
tor (god of thunder, I like the meaning but i struggle to say tor in swedish as the o sounds a bit like ou and the r is rolled... so the baby would have its own mum mispronouncing his name forever)
I would love to give the baby a really English name but we live in Sweden and will live here most probably for all of the baby's childhood. DO you think it is so awful to give a child a foreign name?
thank you!