Finja
Finja is a female Nordic given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
There are several theories about the origin and meaning of the first name Finja:
- Name derived from the ethnic name of the Finns : "the Finnin".
- No Finnish first name, as the letter F in Finnish only occurs in words that have been adopted from other languages.
- Feminine form of Finn .
- Russian pet form of the name Rufina , the feminine form of Rufus ("the red").
- Modification of Fenja .
- Possibly Irish or Gaelic origin: "white" and "beautiful" (see Fiona or Finn ).
- Comes from the Celtic and means something like “pure, beautiful, white, friendly, innocent”.
- female Basque baptismal name "die Feine, Zartfühlende" from Basque fin, fineza "fine, tender"
- Origin: Frisian: peace
- Further meanings: Fine, tender, Nordic, blameless, white, beautiful, blonde, pure, friendly, tender ...
- There is also a small village in southern Sweden called Finja.
- from the Nordic: "the wanderer"
- modified form of Josefine
Well-known namesake
- Finja Martens , German actress (* 1981 in Hamburg)
variants
- Finja
- Finia
- Finya
- Fiene
- fin
- Finni
- Finn
- Fynn
- Finny
- Finnja
- Fynnya
- Fynia
- Fini
- Fynja
- Fynnja
- Finnchen
- Fenja
Namesake
- Saint Finnian von Clonard , Irish abbot in the 5th / 6th centuries. century
Name days
- December 12th (see name days of Irish saints, e.g. on the homepage of the Catholic Church in Ireland)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.rund-ums-baby.de/vornamensuche/name-detail.htm?name=Finja
- ↑ http://lexikon.beliebte-vornamen.de/finja.htm
- ↑ http://keller-berg.de/html/finja.html
- ↑ http://www.catholicireland.net/?s=finnian
literature
- Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Duden Taschenbücher , Vol. 4, Lexicon of first names. ISBN 978-3-411-04943-1 .