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 On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 00:03, Ari Nordström wrote: <snip> > > This is certainly off-topic for the list but... > > This middle-name-first thing supposedly common in Sweden is, as far as I > can determine, a fairly rare occurence. I did some quick reasearch and > found hardly anyone--except Henrik--among my immediate friends and family > where this held true. A quick look on the Net indicated the same among > Swedish celebrities and notables, as does the habit of various Swedish > authorities and organizations to simply pick the first (as in "first", not > as in "middle") name when in doubt and without sufficient space to print > all names... It holds true for the parts of Sweden I am from. After checking up a bit, I am starting to believe the naming customs I held to be common for all of Sweden are a bit more local than I thought. I checked a few web pages about official naming rules too, and yes, they have first names and middle names, where the first name is generally the name used. Naming conventions have changed a lot over time though, and there are local and social variations. Darn! I did some further checking, and there is a historical, and rather superstitious reason for using two names: the idea was that if someone got sick, you switched names, and hoped that this would make them get better. There is also a reason for having only one name: Priests did not like the two-name superstition, so they used to refuse to give more than one name, at least in some parts of the country. And finally, there is a reason for keeping names secret, of course: Names have power, and can be used to lay curses. I do hail from a somewhat heathen part of the country, so that could explain why my ideas about naming rules differ a bit from Ari's, and what I found on the web sites. /Henrik 
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