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So my roommate and I went to a local Swedish-American museum recently and I found a few interesting names among the immigrants mentioned in some of the exhibits. Most of these people were born sometime in the 17/1800s, and it’s always very fun to find odd names from that era. Anyhoo:

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Male:
Swan (I have a theory that this was just a variant of Sven, but it does look a bit funny to English-speaking ears.)

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Female:
Othellia
Theolina