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What are you thoughts on Gustaf? And what do you think of these combos with it from the 19th century Finland?

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Gustaf Albert Alexei “Kustaa”
Gustaf Albin
Gustaf Albrekt
Gustaf Amatus
Gustaf Anatolius
Gustaf Armand
Gustaf Arvid Selim
Gustaf Atniel
Gustaf Baltzar
Gustaf Basilius
Gustaf Berndt Mortimer
Gustaf Bernhard Casper
Gustaf Bogislaus
Gustaf Brynolf
Gustaf Calixtus
Gustaf Detlof Erik
Gustaf Eckhard Maximilian
Gustaf Edgar
Gustaf Edvard Reguel
Gustaf Edvin Rafael Vitalis
Gustaf Engelbrekt Rudolf
Gustaf Ernfrid
Gustaf Fabian (later known as Kyösti Fabian)
Gustaf Fingal
Gustaf Florentin
Gustaf Fridolf
Gustaf Fritiof
Gustaf Gabriel
Gustaf Georg Gideon
Gustaf Hjalmar
Gustaf Mathias
Gustaf Mauritz Henrik Georg
Gustaf Napoleon
Gustaf Nathanael
Gustaf Nikolaus
Gustaf Olivier
Gustaf Onni Ferdinand
Gustaf Onni Immanuel
Gustaf Oskar Teofil
Gustaf Sebastian
Gustaf Severin
Gustaf Sigurd Gideon
Gustaf Tycho
Gustaf Uljas
Gustaf Uno Valdemar
Gustaf Valfrid
Gustaf Vilhelm Engelbrekt
Gustaf Villehad
Gustaf Wäinö
Gustaf Zachris

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Albert Gustaf Aristides
Allan Gustaf Rafael
Berndt Gustaf Knut Björn Waldemar
Blechard Gustaf
Edmund Gustav
Edvard Gustaf Hannibal
Ernst Gustaf Venzel
Eugène Emile Gustave
Germund Gustaf
Ivar Veli Gustaf
Karl Gustaf Fabian
Karl Gustaf Gottfrid
Karl Gustaf Mauritz Napoleon
Karl Ilo Gustaf
Karl Konstantin Gustaf
Rabbe Fabian Gustaf
Rabbe Gustaf Otto
Rolf Gustaf Kasimir
Samuel Gustaf Volmar
Svante Gustaf Engelbrekt Sten
Östen Gustaf

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Context:

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Most of these names belonged to the members of the Finnish-Swedish minority which explains the usage of more Scandinavian, Germanic and Indo-European names in general. Finnish was made the official language with Swedish in 1858 and during the latter half of the century people started to (re)use more "pure" Finnish names inspired by the national-romantic movement.

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The usage of native, traditional Finnish names was lost during the Christianization in the Middle Ages: so, the most popular names in Finland were and even still are Biblical and saint names, such as Maria, Helena, Sofia, Johannes and Mikael. These were the forms that were used in the official documents, but people made up and used more Finnish sounding variants and diminutives of them, for example Maija, Leena, Sohvi, Juhani and Mikko. Nowadays these forms are used independently and have lost their nickname status.

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