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.
miekman at 2024-03-27 14:09:28+00:00 ID:
kwstc6uMy grandpa’s name is Sture, he is 88 years old and in a wheelchair. I have actually not met any other Swede who has that name. So that’s the kind of person who I think of when I hear the name Sture.
As someone else said, he can call himself whatever he wants, but my immediate thought is that I would think it just doesn’t really fit if he is pretty much 110% American and he’d introduce himself as “Sture” with a heavy American accent, but it’s not something I’d make fun of him for.
Pata11 at 2024-03-27 15:27:51+00:00 ID:
kwt6qwdMy grandfather’s name was also Sture, he would have been 92 this year.