Titel: Naming the children
Skrivet av: Ingela Martenius skrivet 2008-01-28, 13:42
Cecilia,
Double names are actually two names. When people started giving their children several first names, all of the names were used (yes, you actually called people Anders Erik or Sara Margareta). Today we think that a hyphen is needed, but this was unheard of 200 years ago. Some name combinations eventually became so common that people started regarding them as one name, a double name - like e.g. Anna-Karin or Lars-Gunnar - and we began using hyphens to emphasize that both names should be used.
Some name combinations became so very common that they actually made upp a totally new name: Marianne, which of course started out as Marie Anne.