Airi

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Finnish airut = 'messenger, herald' [1]

2) From Finnish place names like Airiselkä, Airismaa, Airisto in Lappi where the airi-element derives from the Ancient Norse name *Aiwa-rikiaR or *Aina-rikiaR [1] [2]

Related Names

Aira
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Áirá
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Sami
Aire
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Finish Sami
Áire
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Sami
Airi
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Aikki, Airikki, Airuska

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Airi
Genitive: Airis
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Airi
Genitive: Airin
Partitive: Airia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Airi
Genitive: Airis
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Airi
Genitive: Airis

Name Day

Finland Finland

4 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 180 people were named Airi (percentage of first or only given name: 93 %) [4]

Statistics

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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[5]
n.a.
10872
n.a.
10872 0 0
Sweden Sweden[6]
265 387 265 387 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
12
n.a.
12
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
12
n.a.
12
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
0 1
n.a.
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 Airi.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  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. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/