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.

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    mrbigbucksandmuscles at 2024-03-27 15:10:24+00:00 ID: kwt4jce

    I think it’s weird. It’s true that the order doesn’t matter (i.e. that the first name doesn’t need to be the name that he goes by) but it’s weird that he’s changing it now all of a sudden, having been called the other name for all these years. People in Sweden are gonna see him as an American anyway if he doesn’t speak perfect Swedish so no need to pull out the Swedish name