Satu 1

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Female Female Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the Greenlandic name see Satu 2

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish satu = 'fairy tale' (Finnish translation of Saga) [1] [2]

Related Names

Satu
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Oodi, Runo, Saga and Taru

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Satu
Genitive: Sadun
Partitive: Satua
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Satu
Genitive: Satus
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Satu
Genitive: Satus

Name Day

Finland Finland

18 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 56 people were named Satu 1 (percentage of first or only given name: 84 %) [5]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[3]
n.a.
26619
n.a.
26619 0 0
Sweden Sweden[6]
589 952 589 952 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
16
n.a.
16
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
31
n.a.
31
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Satu.


References

  1. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/