Early Help Naming #4

All input will be appreciated, but we’re mostly looking for girl MN advice. I’ll share our “almost” names too so you can maybe get our style a little. #1 would have been [name_m]Zachary[/name_m] if a boy, and our girl alternate was [name_f]Marianne[/name_f]. #2 was almost [name_m]Jason[/name_m] or [name_f]Abigail[/name_f]. #3 would have been [name_f]Adelaide[/name_f] if a girl, but we had no extra boy name because my sister, due 1 month later, had chosen [name_m]Matthew[/name_m] and we wanted to get “dibs.” (I hope you can see their names in my signature.)

We like saints’ names. We like names DH’s Hungarian relatives can pronounce, but which are “normal” enough to adults not to cause comment. Something Swedish might be fun, as DH’s grandmother’s Swedish heritage is important to her, and sometimes she feels outdone by all the Hungarians her son married into. We’d kind of like to carry on a theme of literary connections, too: Sara for Sara Crewe in “A Little Princess,” Evelyn for author Evelyn Waugh, and Matthias for the little mouse from Redwall.

For a boy we like [name_m]Robert[/name_m] [name_m]Gabriel[/name_m] or [name_m]Gabriel[/name_m] [name_m]Robert[/name_m]. And for a girl, we like [name_f]Gwen[/name_f] ___… [name_f]Colette[/name_f]? [name_f]Theodora[/name_f]? Reuse one of our old extras? Find something completely different? Help!

I like [name_m]Robert[/name_m] [name_m]Gabriel[/name_m], it certainly sounds very literary

Some other boys suggestions:
[name_u]Laurence[/name_u]- this has the option of nicknames [name_u]Lonnie[/name_u], [name_u]Laurie[/name_u], [name_u]Ren[/name_u]
[name_m]Christopher[/name_m]
[name_m]Eli[/name_m]
[name_m]Alexander[/name_m]- [name_u]Alex[/name_u], [name_u]Lex[/name_u], [name_m]Xander[/name_m], [name_u]Sasha[/name_u], [name_u]Sandy[/name_u]
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m]- [name_u]Freddie[/name_u], [name_m]Fred[/name_m]
[name_m]Theodore[/name_m]- [name_u]Theo[/name_u], [name_u]Teddy[/name_u]
[name_m]Simon[/name_m]
[name_m]Silas[/name_m]
[name_m]Ezra[/name_m]
[name_m]Vincent[/name_m]
[name_m]Miles[/name_m] or [name_m]Myles[/name_m]
[name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m]
[name_m]George[/name_m]
[name_m]Jonathan[/name_m]
[name_m]Henry[/name_m]
[name_m]Nicholas[/name_m]
[name_u]Elias[/name_u]- very popular in [name_u]Sweden[/name_u]
[name_m]Jacob[/name_m]

Swedish names (first or middle):
[name_f]Linnea[/name_f]
[name_m]Stellan[/name_m]
[name_f]Julia[/name_f]
[name_f]Kristen[/name_f]
[name_f]Elisabet[/name_f]
[name_m]Aron[/name_m]
[name_m]Anders[/name_m]
[name_f]Klara[/name_f]
[name_u]Alva[/name_u]
[name_f]Ida[/name_f]
[name_f]Ester[/name_f]

I’d keep [name_f]Adelaide[/name_f]- it’s really gorgeous! I also like [name_f]Theodora[/name_f] and [name_f]Gwen[/name_f] but don’t care for [name_f]Colette[/name_f]

I’d also like to suggest [name_f]Alice[/name_f]- it fits perfectly with your other choices and it was the no 1 name in [name_u]Sweden[/name_u] last year, and it fits all the criteria you’ve listed

Well you kinda picked “Swedish” names (by that I mean names common in [name_u]Sweden[/name_u]) for your son. [name_m]William[/name_m] is really popular for little boys and [name_m]Matthias[/name_m] is a common name formen born in the 70’s and 80’s.

If you want to pick something Swedish and keep a theme of literary theme these might be something to consider:

[name_m]Carl[/name_m] [name_m]Mikael[/name_m] - after famous poet /1740-95) who wrote a lot of poems and songs still sung in [name_u]Sweden[/name_u]. His last name is Bellman (maybe for a mn?)

[name_f]Fredrika[/name_f] - after [name_f]Fredrika[/name_f] Bremer, writer, promoter of women’s rights

[name_m]Viktor[/name_m] - after [name_m]Viktor[/name_m] Rydberg, he wrote the most Swedish christmas poem

[name_u]August[/name_u] - after [name_u]August[/name_u] Strindberg, famous writer

[name_m]Gustaf[/name_m] - after [name_m]Gustaf[/name_m] Fröding, poet

[name_f]Elsa[/name_f] - after [name_f]Elsa[/name_f] Beskow, writer of childrens books

[name_m]Hjalmar[/name_m] - after [name_m]Hjalmar[/name_m] Södeberg, writer of swedish classics

[name_f]Selma[/name_f] - after [name_f]Selma[/name_f] Lagerlöf, writer, first woman to recive the Nobel Prize in literature

[name_u]Alva[/name_u] - after [name_u]Alva[/name_u] Myrdahl, political and influentical writer, her husband, also a writer was named [name_m]Gunnar[/name_m]

[name_m]Vilhelm[/name_m] - writer, wrote a series of books about emigrants from [name_u]Sweden[/name_u] to the U.S, there has also been a musical by the name [name_f]Kristina[/name_f] från Duvemåla produced based on these books, it played in NYC a couple of years ago

[name_f]Astrid[/name_f] - after the beloved author of Childrens books