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Ikea Norway offers help with baby names after COVID-19 boom

The Ikea store building is seen Tuesday March 30, 2021 in Ottawa. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / Adrian Wyld) The Ikea store building is seen Tuesday March 30, 2021 in Ottawa. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / Adrian Wyld)
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Have you thought about Malm, Kivik or Trotten?

Swedish retailer Ikea is known for the distinctive names of its flat-pack home products. The company's Norway branch wants to use the brand's experience to help parents browsing the baby-naming department.

Ikea Norway has built 鈥渁 name bank鈥 with more than 800 listings available on its website. The names are drawn from ones Ikea has given to its furniture instead of product numbers since 1948.

鈥淎fter all these years, (Ikea) has built up a large `catalog' to pick from,鈥 Ikea Norway said in a statement.

Ikea names its products after Swedish towns, lakes and other geographical features, but also uses names that have traditionally gone to people.

The branch noted that while retailers saw 鈥渂oth a shortage of raw materials and challenges with delivery times鈥 during the COVID-19 pandemic, 鈥渢here is at least no shortage of children鈥 in Norway.

The Scandinavian country registered the births of 56,060 babies last year, or 3,081 more than in 2020.

The increase creates 鈥渁 challenge in finding unique names,鈥 Ikea Norway said.

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