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Finnish surnames of Virtanen type (16 P) Pages in category "Finnish-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 896 total.
Finnish name. In Finland, a person must have a surname and at least one given name with up to four given names permitted. Surnames are inherited either patrilineally or matrilineally, while given names are usually chosen by a person's parents. Finnish names come from a variety of dissimilar traditions that were consolidated only in the early ...
Finland Swedish surnames (4 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Finnish origin" The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total.
In the romantic spirit, they refer to natural features: virta 'river', koski 'rapids', mäki 'hill', järvi 'lake', saari 'island' — often with the suffix -nen added after the model of older, mainly eastern Finnish surnames such as Korhonen and Heikkinen. Hämäläinen literally means 'an inhabitant of Häme'. The suffix -nen is an adjective ...
Albert (given name) Aleksanteri. Aleksi. Algot (name) Ali (name) Alvar (given name) Anssi. Antero. Anthon (given name)
The Virtanen type Finnish surnames are the surnames that became popular in the 19th century in western Finland and that are formed by combining of a word related to nature (but not an animal) with the suffix -nen. The name of the type was introduced by Finnish expert in naming Sirkka Paikkala [ fi] after the surname Virtanen, the most common ...
The most common surname in Finland was Virtanen before 2009, when the number of people with the surname Korhonen exceeded the number of people with the surname Virtanen for the first time. [2] [3] The word korho is not used in standard Finnish , but it and words derived from it are used in some dialects, and there are also related words both in ...
Typically, the oldest East Finnish surnames were formed from the first names of the patriarchs of the families, e.g. Ikävalko, Termonen, Pentikäinen. In the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, new names were most often formed by adding the name of the former or current place of living (e.g. Puumalainen < Puumala ).