Aallotar
From aallotar (“water nymph”). Used as a given name since the late 19th century.
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
- Ending
- ends R
finnish names
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Aamu
From aamu (“morning”). First used as a given name in 1899.
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Ending
- ends U
Aava
From aava (“open sea”), occasionally recorded since early 20th century. Popularised in the 2000s decade partly through association with the fashionable English Ava.
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Ending
- ends A
Aina
Popularized by Zachris Topelius's poem Ljungblommar (1845), as a name commonly used by Swedish-speaking Finns. Possibly coined from a dialectal variant of ainoa (“only”). Now…
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Ending
- ends A
Aini
Variant of Aino, Aina.
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Ending
- ends I
Ainikki
From Aino + -ikki, first proposed in 1879.
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
- Ending
- ends I
Aino
From aino, a poetic variant of ainoa (“only, sole”), also in the sense “unique”. The name was coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot, the editor of the…
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Ending
- ends O
Hilja
19th-century coinage from hiljainen (“quiet”), probably as a calque of Latin Placidus (which is a male given name).
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Ending
- ends A
Lumi
Modern usage from lumi (“snow”), but with a different declension.
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Ending
- ends I
Rami
Borrowed from Arabic رَامِي (rāmī), masculine singular construct form of رَامٍ (rāmin). This surname is predominantly found in Morocco and India.
- Gender
- masculine
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Ending
- ends I
Tyyne
A late 19th-century coinage from a form of tyyni (“calm”).
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Ending
- ends E
Virva
Early 20th-century invention, by clipping of virvatuli.
- Gender
- feminine
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Ending
- ends A