Meaning of the popular finnish name "Siiri"

[Gjest]

Hello all,

I would like to find out if anybody knows the meaning of the finnish
name "Siiri". A friend of mine is named Siiri and she always wondered
what that name probably means. All I could find out so far is that it
is a popular name in Finland.

Can anybody help me out on that or can somebody direct me to the
correct group.
Any hints are highly appreciated!

Thanks!! Greetings from Germany.

Mike

[Gjest]

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Hello all,

I would like to find out if anybody knows the meaning of the finnish
name "Siiri". A friend of mine is named Siiri and she always wondered
what that name probably means. All I could find out so far is that it
is a popular name in Finland.

Can anybody help me out on that or can somebody direct me to the
correct group.
Any hints are highly appreciated!

Thanks!! Greetings from Germany.

Mike

Siiri is probably the finnish form of Sigfrid like my name Juha is the
finnish form of Johannes.

[Finn]

Siiri is Finnish short form of Sigrid, and
Sigrid come from the Old Norse name Sigríðr, which was derived from the
elements sigr "victory" and fríðr "beautiful, fair".

Look http://www.behindthename.com/

Best regard

Finn (which means in nordic "person from Finnland" but I am not)


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[email protected] kirjoitti:

Hello all,

I would like to find out if anybody knows the meaning of the finnish
name "Siiri". A friend of mine is named Siiri and she always wondered
what that name probably means. All I could find out so far is that it
is a popular name in Finland.

Can anybody help me out on that or can somebody direct me to the
correct group.
Any hints are highly appreciated!

Thanks!! Greetings from Germany.

Mike

Siiri is probably the finnish form of Sigfrid like my name Juha is the
finnish form of Johannes.

[Dave Hinz]

On 7 Aug 2006 08:06:30 -0700, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

Siiri is probably the finnish form of Sigfrid like my name Juha is the
finnish form of Johannes.

Interesting. So how about the Finnish name "Janne"?

[Finn]

http://www.behindthename.com/php/search ... erms=janne

Finn

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On 7 Aug 2006 08:06:30 -0700, [email protected]
[email protected]> wrote:

Siiri is probably the finnish form of Sigfrid like my name Juha is the
finnish form of Johannes.

Interesting. So how about the Finnish name "Janne"?

[Dave Hinz]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:46:49 +0200, Finn <[email protected]> wrote:

http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?nmd=n&terms=janne

Oh, that's a very useful site, thank you!

Dave

[Göran Wennerström]

"Dave Hinz" <[email protected]> skrev

Oh, that's a very useful site, thank you!

Dave

My father is from Hanko in Finland, his name is not in the database, do
anyone knows the name "Böljer" ??????

Blíðar heilsur Göran.

[Risto Widenius]

"Göran Wennerström" <gw@[fjern dette først]post.olivant.fo> writes:

My father is from Hanko in Finland, his name is not in the database, do
anyone knows the name "Böljer" ??????

Böljer, obviously a Swedish name, appears exactly three times in the
Finnish Population Register Centre database <www.vrk.fi>. Perhaps you
will find the years 1913, 1942 and 1964 familiar from your very table
of agnates. Also the form "Bölje" appears thrice in the database. Both
names could be dialectal forms of "Börje" (even "Birger" misheard by a
högsvensk clerk). On the other hand, the name could be of ancient
origin and only preserved in isolated godforsaken nut-bushes like
Hangö. Seriously, I've never heard the name before and can not think
of any parallel name with a wide distribution in Finland.

--
missing the blind spot

[Göran Wennerström]

"Risto Widenius" <[email protected]> skrev

Böljer, obviously a Swedish name,

Ok.

appears exactly three times in the Finnish Population Register Centre
database <www.vrk.fi>. Perhaps you will find the years 1913, 1942 and 1964
familiar from your very table of agnates. Also the form "Bölje" appears
thrice in the database.

I was born in '64, my father in '42 and his father in '13. My son have the
name also, but he is reg. her in the Faroe Islands. My father say the name
is an old viking name, but i can't confirm it anywhere?

Thanks for the help.

Böljer "Göran"

[Risto Widenius]

"Göran Wennerström" <gw@[fjern dette først]post.olivant.fo> writes:

My father say the name [Böljer] is an old viking name, but i can't
confirm it anywhere?

Sounds plausible enough. This is also what I had in mind when
referring to "ancient origin". While an amount of place names in the
Finnish coast, including Hangö region, are assumed to originate from
the viking era, the same could very well apply (to some extent) to
person names too. The name is also too obscure to have been adopted
from the proxima saga to obtain a hypothetical viking ancestry; a
tendency that I have witnessed in the past.

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