My opinions:
Girls:
Celeste - Love it!
Desibel - Sounds like "decibal". It might be Swedish, but it looks wrong in English.
Eira - Love it!
Esterli - Kinda trashy.
Esther - Love it!
Hedvig - Love it!
Jensine - Kinda trashy.
Joline - Kinda trashy.
Kerstin - Love it!
Linnéa Cecilia - Love it!
Louise - Love it!
Mathilda - Love it!
Melissa - Love it, and it might be Swedish since Melissa exists in many other European languages.
Melody - I like it, but it's not Swedish.
Meya - It's okay.
Minna - Love it!
Nora - Love it!
Oda - Love it!
Sally - Love it, even if it doesn't look Swedish.
Stella - Love it!
Thea - Love it!
Tindra - Love it!
Tora - I prefer Tyra.
Tuva - Love it, even though Tuva is the name of an autonomous republic in Siberia.
Tyra - Love it!
Zavannah - Another Swedish couple who wants to copy the Americans. Barf.
Boys:
Alwin - I prefer Alvin.
André - Love it!
Bertil - It's okay.
Felix - Love it!
Hampus - Ick!
Jack - This is not a Swedish name, Swedes!
Kimi - It means "you little boy" in some language!
Malte - Sounds like Malta.
Morris - Sounds like a crabby old Jewish man (no offense).
Samuel - Not my style.
Vide - Not my style.
Wilmer - Even worse than Elmer.
Sibs:
(Sandra, Axel, Lèon) - Love all of them!
(Hannah, Saga, Cornelis, Embla, Smilla) - Saga sounds funny.
(Elina, Emilia) - Love them!
(Johannes, Tilde) - Love them!
(Emely, Johanna) - Emely looks misspelled.
(Nathalie, Jonathan) - Love them!
(Miranda, Nathalie, Alessandra, Levin, Navella) - Alessandra is nice, but it looks Italian. Miranda looks out of place.
(Josephine, Jimmy) - Jimmy doesn't look Swedish.
(Joar) - This might be Swedish, but it looks ugly.
(Alicia) - Love it, but it doesn't look Swedish.
(Alfons, Wilmer) - Alfons is nice, but Wilmer sounds like a fat old redneck.
(Linnea) - Love it!
(Tindra) - Love it!
Boys:
(Sebastian, Tilda) - Love it!
(Tuva) - Love it!
(Zack) - Not a Swedish name. Sorry.
(Lii) - Li looks Chinese.
(Celina) - Love it!
(Olle) - Not my style.
(Ella) - I don't think Ella is a Swedish name.
(William, Natalie) - William is not a Swedish name. Sorry.
(Lava) - (bursts out laughing)
Some nameless childrens siblings:
Moa, Filip, Alma, Miranda, Emilia - Miranda looks out of place.
Siola, Julia - Love Julia, but Siola?
Simone, Julia - Love them!
Emma, Minna - Love them!
Emmie, Emanuel - Too similar.
Rasmus, Natalie, Johanna, Miranda, Antonio - Miranda and Antonio don't look Swedish!
Tilde, Nellie, Benjamin, Dewin - Looks like they were trying to use Devin (not a Swedish name) and spelled it phonetically.
William, Annie, Julia, Sarah - William and Annie look out of place.
I'm impressed by the Swedish names, but disgusted by the American names!
This message was edited 9/13/2008, 12:09 PM