Urho

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Male Name

Usage

Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish urho = 'brave', 'hero'

Related Names

Urho

♂

See also Uki, Urkka, Urska

Cognates

• Sami: Oaván

Grammar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Urho
Genitive:	Urhon
Partitive:	Urhoa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Urho
Genitive:	Urhos

- Swedish
Nominative:	Urho
Genitive:	Urhos

Name Day

Finland

17 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1892 (born in Finland)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1920-1939

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Östsverige
  • Nordsverige

Namesakes

• Finland:
  • Urho Jonas Castrén (30 December 1886 – 8 March 1965), judge and prime minister of Finland (1944)
  • Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), Finnish politician, eighth and longest-serving president of Finland (1956–1982) and prime minister of Finland (1950–1953 and 1954–1956)

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 89 people were named Urho (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %)

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		n.a.	14198	0	0	n.a.	14198
Sweden		55	109	0	0	55	109
Denmark		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		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 Urho.