Swedish Names for Boys

Few Scandinavian names make the journey to America...and this one shows you why. Still, names such as Freya and Odin are making an unlikely comeback, so we wouldn't count any of the Scandinavian baby names out forever.

Once a short form of names containing this syllable, it is now used on its own, though we'd prefer Sven.

Soft, gentle, and non-Germanic, but the final s almost makes it sound plural.