My son is in high school and is going to be an exchange student in Sweden next year.
Our family background is Swedish. His first name is a typical American name, but his middle name is Swedish, and our last name is Swedish.
For example, John Sture Andersson.
Nobody calls him Sture in the US; people can’t pronounce it. But he has been asking Swedish people who he’s met (so far, as part of the exchange program process) to call him Sture.
Is that weird; if he asks people in Sweden to call him Sture, will Swedes make fun of him or think that his request is bizarre, since he is called John in the US? And is the name “Sture” a nice name?
Thanks.
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The original was posted on /r/sweden by /u/CraftAccomplished784 at 2024-03-27 13:08:14+00:00.
Godmodex2 at 2024-03-27 15:11:15+00:00 ID:
kwt4oemPeople have allready answered that it´s perfectly fine to use the middlename but I´d like to mention that sometimes people use both names. In this case it would be John-Sture which has a nice ring to it, in my opinion.
It´s not totally uncommon to name your kid with your own name and sometimes people even mix in names that´s usally a name reserved for the opposite gender which makes for pretty nice combination. Here´s some examples.
Maj-Gull, Anna-Lisa, Marie-Louise, Per-Albin, Karl-Axel, Jan-Erik.
Like I said sometimes people mix gender specific names, It´s rare though but not unheard of.
Anna-Göran and Maja-Erik