My son is in high school and is going to be an exchange student in Sweden next year.

Our family background is Swedish. His first name is a typical American name, but his middle name is Swedish, and our last name is Swedish.

For example, John Sture Andersson.

Nobody calls him Sture in the US; people can’t pronounce it. But he has been asking Swedish people who he’s met (so far, as part of the exchange program process) to call him Sture.

Is that weird; if he asks people in Sweden to call him Sture, will Swedes make fun of him or think that his request is bizarre, since he is called John in the US? And is the name “Sture” a nice name?

Thanks.

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The original was posted on /r/sweden by /u/CraftAccomplished784 at 2024-03-27 13:08:14+00:00.

  • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBSvenska
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    6 months ago

    pillevinks at 2024-03-27 14:22:11+00:00 ID: kwsved0

    My brother always went by his middle name, I in fact didn’t know it WAS his middle name. Apparently when he was small, he didn’t “like” when our parents called him that, so the middle name stuck instead.

    My father also, was called by his middle name because he had a sibling that ended up being called my dad’s first (as a nickname lol).

    Anyway sounds like your kiddo UNDERSTANDABLY wants to connect to the country, so he’s now Sture. Which is a pretty uninteresting and normal name.

    Note: I had a few names that varied between who was calling me out. My parents had a pet name for me, my brother a different, friends a third, and when formality demanded, my legal name.

    “What’s in a name”