Finn (first name)
Finn is a male name .
Origin and meaning
There are several theories about the origin and meaning of the first name Finn:
- Finn (from which Fionn mac Cumhaill ) is an old Irish name. He is mentioned for the first time in the Finn cycle from the 3rd century AD. In early youth, Finn ate the salmon of knowledge, which helped him to become wise. He was given the name Finn, which means "knowledgeable". A more recent form of it is Fionn .
- The name comes from the Gaelic fionn and means something like "blonde, white, bright".
- The name is Scandinavian and derived from the Old Norse name Finnr , which means "person from Finland".
- Finn means "wanderer" or "vagabond".
Versions
Fionn and Fiona also belong to the family of names . There are also variants such as Finbar, Fintan, Fyn (n), Fin, Finley, Fin (n) ian, Finnegan, Finntard and in the female form Finja .
Finn can be derived from the Greek name "Phineas" and means "dark, brown".
distribution
The name Finn (Fynn) was hardly common in Germany before the 1980s. It quickly gained popularity in the nineties and has been on the list of the ten most frequently given first names of the respective year since the turn of the millennium.
Name bearer
Name form: Finn
- Finn Alnæs (1932–1991), Norwegian writer
- Finn Bjørnseth (1924–1973), Norwegian writer
- Finn Carling (1925-2004), Norwegian writer
- Finn Carter (* 1960), American actress
- Finn Cole (born 1995), British actor
- Finn Dittelbach (* 1990), German volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Finn von Eyben (* 1944), Danish internist as well as jazz and improvisation musician (double bass, composition)
- Finn Fuglestad (* 1942), Norwegian historian
- Finn Olav Gundelach (1925–1981), Danish diplomat
- Finn Gustavsen (1926–2005), Norwegian socialist and politician
- Finn Holsing (* 1983), German soccer player
- Finn Hummel (* 2001), German handball goalkeeper
- Finn Christian Jagge (1966-2020), Norwegian ski racer
- Finn Kristensen (* 1936), Norwegian politician
- Finn E. Kydland (* 1943), Norwegian economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Finn Lemke (* 1992), German handball player
- Finn Mortensen (1922–1983), Norwegian composer, music critic and university professor
- Finn Nielsen (1913–1995), Danish Landshøvding from Greenland
- Finn Nielsen (* 1937), Danish actor
- Finn Reske-Nielsen (* 1950), Danish diplomat
- Finn Porath (* 1997), German soccer player
- Finn Ronne (1899–1980), Norwegian-American Antarctic explorer
- Finn Salomonsen (1909-1983), Danish ornithologist
- Finn Søeborg (1916–1992), Danish writer and humorist
- Finn Tugwell (* 1976), Danish table tennis player
- Finn Wittrock (* 1984), American actor
- Finn Wolfhard (* 2002), Canadian actor
- Finn Zetterholm (* 1945), Swedish songwriter and writer
Name form: Fin
- Fin Bartels (* 1987), German soccer player
Name form: Fionn
- Fionn mac Cumhaill (Anglicized Finn MacCool ; † 286 AD), legendary leader of the Celts in Ireland
- Fionn Regan (* 1979), Irish songwriter
- Fionn Whitehead (born 1997), British actor
Name form: Fynn
- Fynn Arkenberg (* 1996), German soccer player
- Fynn Fischer (* 1999), German basketball player
- Fynn Gutzeit (* 1990), German soccer player
- Fynn Henkel (1996-2015), German actor
- Fynn Holpert (* 1967), German handball goalkeeper and manager
- Fynn Kliemann (* 1990), German musician, author and YouTuber
- Fynn-Luca Nicolaus (* 2003), German handball player
- Fynn Ranke (* 1993), German handball player
- Fynn Malte Schröder (* 1997), German handball player
Use as a stage name
- Fynn , pseudonym of the author of the book " Hello, Mister Gott, this is Anna speaking "
Use as the name of a fictional character
- Fynn Fish from Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne by Arina Tanemura
- Finn, main character of the series Adventure Time - Adventure time with Finn and Jake
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finn on www.behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ↑ Fionn on www.behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ^ Duden: Lexicon of first names , by Rosa and Volker Kohlheim. 3. Edition. Mannheim, Leipzig, Vienna, Zurich: Dudenverlag 1998.
- ↑ Finn (2) on www.behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"