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by ikornaselur 1683 days ago
Not sure about Sweden, but in Iceland there's a naming committee that has to approve names not already on the approved list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee

It does look like there's a similar thing in Sweden though

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To add: I think this is to make sure the name can be declined into the noun cases necessary to make sentences in Icelandic.