Varpu

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Finnish dialectal variant form of Valborg

2) Finnish varpu = 'bush', 'branch' [1]

Related Names

Varpu
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish Swedish

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Varpu
Genitive: Varpun
Partitive: Varpua
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Varpu
Genitive: Varpus

Name Day

Finland Finland

20 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 19 people were named Varpu (percentage of first or only given name: 89 %) [3]

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[4]
n.a.
2680
n.a.
2680 0 0
Sweden Sweden[5]
34 60 34 60 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
1
n.a.
1
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
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 Varpu.


References

  1. Rolf Klemmert, Ilkka Rekiaro: Gummeruksen suomi-saksa-suomi-sanakirja (1999)
  2. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/