Terttu

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish terttu = 'bunch, cluster (of berries)' or 'umbel' (of a flower) [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Terttu
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Tepa and Tetta

For male forms see Tertullianus

Combinations

Name
Element    
Example
MARJA see Marjaterttu

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Terttu
Genitive: Terttus
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Terttu
Genitive: Tertun
Partitive: Terttua
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Terttu
Genitive: Terttus
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Terttu
Genitive: Terttus

Name Day

Finland Finland

26 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 484 people were named Terttu (percentage of first or only given name: 84 %) [7]

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[6]
n.a.
29542
n.a.
29542 0 0
Sweden Sweden[8]
666 1040 666 1040 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
9
n.a.
9
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
18
n.a.
18
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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 Terttu.


References

  1. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  6. 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/