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Virva

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish virvatuli = 'will o' the wisp' [1]

Related Names

Virva ♀
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Virve ♀
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Name Days

Finland Finland

2 March

Further Information

'Will o' the wisp' is a ghostly bluish light sometimes seen at night or twilight over damp ground. In Finland, people believed that Will o' the wisps marked the place of hidden treasures, and the best time to see it was at midsummer.

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[2]
n.a.
 1149
n.a.
 1149 0 0
Sweden Sweden[3]
38 51 38 51 0 0
Denmark Denmark[4]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[5]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[6]
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 Virva.


References

  1. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  6. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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