Vili

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Finnish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse vili = 'will' (see name element VILL for more information and Ville for more related names)

2) Finnish variant form of Fili

3) Finnish variant form of Villi (see Ville)

Related Names

Vili

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Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Vilason

Female

Viladóttir

Grammar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Vili
Genitive:	Vilin
Partitive:	Viliä

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Vili
Accusative:	Vila
Dative:	Vila
Genitive:	Vila

Name Days

Finland

6 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 1 March 2012

Norse Mythology

• Vili is a giant in the Northern mythology. He is the son of Burr and Bestla. His brothers are Óðinn and Vé. Vili and Vé take over the rule of the Æsir during Óðinn's exile and they share his wife Frigg until he returns.

Trivia

• Vili is also used as an Icelandic horse name

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.	5513	0	0	n.a.	5513
Sweden		14	29	0	0	14	29
Denmark		4	n.a.	0	n.a.	4	n.a.
Iceland		0	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	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.

 

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