Urho

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Male Male Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish urho = 'brave', 'hero' [1] [2]

Related Names

Urho
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 Uki, Urkka, Urska

Cognates

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Urho
Genitive: Urhon
Partitive: Urhoa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Urho
Genitive: Urhos
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Urho
Genitive: Urhos

Name Day

Finland Finland

17 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 89 people were named Urho (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %) [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.
14198 0 0
n.a.
14198
Sweden Sweden[6]
55 109 0 0 55 109
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 Urho.


References

  1. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  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/