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Swedish question
What would be the most common way of expressing "Peter Nicholas" as a Swedish name? Would it be Per-Niklas? Would a hyphen be used? Is this a common pairing? Thanks.
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Hmmm, well, Per Niklas would probably be the Swedish variant. "Double names" are usually hyphenated, but Per-Niklas is very rare. According to a statistic site, there are only 23 Per-Niklas in Sweden, and only 18 of them use Per-Niklas as their first name. 3 men are called Per Niklas without the hyphen (and Sweden has about 9 million citizens).
The reason why Per-Niklas is so uncommon, although both Per and Niklas are very common names and hyphenated names are rather common in Sweden, is probably the fact that "Petter-Niklas" or "petterniklas" is slang for penis!
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I had to check - there is 1 Petter-Niklas, 1 Peter-Nicklas and 1 Peter-Niclas. Unfortunate!
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OTHow do you find out how many people have a certain name in Sweden?
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Here:
http://www.scb.se/Pages/NameSearch____259432.aspxI keep this guy's page bookmarked. He has all kinds of links of this sort.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Makaokalani
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Good to know!
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