How I think Swedish Names work

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                     I've been following hockey for long enough now to notice a few things about certain countries' naming habits. One country that I've been interested in is Sweden, because of the pattern I've seen in Swedish last names. What I've found is that there are usually two parts to a Swedish surname, the first and the last. There aren't any set few that make up these groups, it's just out there that a lot of Swedish last names have two parts. I'll use some NHL players as examples. 

 

John Klingberg. First part: Kling. Second part: Berg. I've found that Berg is a fairly common name in Sweden, as the first part and the last part of names. Kling must be rare, as I haven't seen it twice. But Berg is there to help prove my theory.

 

Erik Karlsson. Now, these types of names are slightly more confusing. It comes from an old Scandinavian tradition where, if a father were named, say, Lars, his son's surname would be Lars-son or Larsson. This applies here, as probably way back Erik had a relative named Karl, who had a son who's surname was Karlsson.

 

Nicklas Backstrom. Strom is another pretty popular Swedish name, usually on the last part of the surname. It's where I got the strom from Linus Zetterstrom from, and you see it quite often when looking at Swedish hockey players, at least.

 

Henrik Zetterberg. This is a mash up of Zetter, which is almost always the first part, and Berg. I used Zetter becase I thought it was used slightly less than some of the other parts, and it went well with Strom. 

 

Patric Hornqvist. Then there's the Qvist, pronounced quist. Also used for Henrik Lundqvist, it's again one of the barely rarer variants of the names.

 

Hampus Lindholm. Lindholm, I find, is an extremely common Swedish last name. It combines Lind, which is, again, a common first part name, and Holm, a decently common last part. I've seen quite a few Lindholms in my hockey watching days

 

Mikael Backlund. While Back is fairly common, the reason I chose Mikael was his second part, Lund. Lund is also an ordinary second part name.

 

Carl Soderberg. The final variation of Swedish names that I'm going to go into today is Soder. Used with Carl Soderberg and Victor Soderstrom, among others, it's kind of an odd sounding name but it goes well with a lot of other parts. 

 

 

And that brings me to when I was naming my player. I liked the first name Linus, which I thought wasn't too common with hockey players, and I made up my own Swedish surname. I used 'Zetter' and 'Strom' to make Zetterstrom, a name that I really like. So that's the story of how I named my player.

 

 

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[Victor 10,940]

What if I hack the system with a Stromqvist?

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31 minutes ago, Victor said:

What if I hack the system with a Stromqvist?