baby names
The most beautiful first names from Astrid Lindgren books
Timelessly beautiful with mischievous charm: Michel has been a popular first name for years.
We owe a lot to Astrid Lindgren – with her timeless children’s book classics, she also provides a lot of inspiration for beautiful children’s names.
Few authors have impacted the world as much as Astrid Lindgren. Okay, Tolstoy had “War and Peace” and yes, that’s nice – but did he know what a “spunk” is? Even. For generations, pretty much every child in Germany has at some point become acquainted with an Astrid Lindgren story, be it as a book to be read aloud, as their first attempt at reading, or through one of the many film adaptations of her works. Their worlds are so strongly in our consciousness that even as adults we still use terms like “Bullerbü” idyll, or buy shirts that say “Be Pippi, not Annika” (unfair accusation, by the way, Annika is not the fun brake , which it is considered to be, but I digress). Therefore, it is actually obvious to be inspired by Astrid Lindgren when looking for a nice first name – after all, many, many characters with timeless and sonorous names appear in her books.
Sweden idyll that always fits
In fact, Scandinavian first names have generally been in trend with us for some time. This is of course partly due to our connection to the stories of Astrid Lindgren, but it also has to do with the boom in Swedish crime novels, which bookstores have taken over within a very short time. Of course, the question quickly arises as to whether you really want to have the association with victims and serial killers of dark, Nordic thrillers – names like “Lisbeth” or “Mikael” are of course still nice. So don’t be shy: Literature is always a great source of inspiration for beautiful names, and the Swedes are often the very first choice in this regard (sorry, Harry Potter fans, but “Dudley” will simply never catch on like “Madita” And of course: Of course it’s a nice bonus when you can read to your little “Kalle” one day what a great detective his namesake is.