Nordic Names

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Unto

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish name of uncertain etymology

One theory is that it is a Finnish form of the Germanic name Undo (Old High German unda = 'billow', 'wave', see UNN) [1] [2]

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Related Names

Untamo ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Unto ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Untti ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Utamo ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Uto ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish

See also Unkka

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Unto
Genitive: Unton
Partitive: Untoa
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Unto
Genitive: Untos

Name Day

Finland Finland

5 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 113 people were named Unto (percentage of first or only given name: 78 %) [4]

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[5]
n.a.
 12793 0 0
n.a.
 12793
Sweden Sweden[6]
111 180 0 0 111 180
Denmark Denmark[7]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
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 Unto.


References

  1. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. ↑ Dr. Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsches namenbuch (1856)
  3. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 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. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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