Yrjö (first name)

Yrjö is a Finnish masculine given name .

Origin and meaning

Yrjö is a Finnish form of Georg . Minor forms are Jyrki , Jyri , Jori and Yrjänä .

name day

Finland: April 23rd
Orthodox: January 8th ?

Name bearer

• Yrjö Asikainen (1928–2008), Finnish football player
• Yrjö Edelmann (1941–2016), Swedish artist and illustrator
• Yrjö Engeström (* 1948), Finnish educator and professor
• Yrjö Hakanen (* 1952), Finnish politician
• Yrjö Kilpinen (1892–1959), Finnish composer
• Yrjö Leino (1897–1961), Finnish politician
• Yrjö Lindegren (1900–1952), Finnish architect
• Yrjö Nikkanen (1914–1985), Finnish athlete
• Yrjö Rantanen (* 1950), Finnish chess grandmaster
• Yrjö Saarela (1884–1951), Finnish wrestler and Olympic champion
• Yrjö Väisälä (1891–1971), Finnish astronomer and physicist
• Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen (1830–1903), Finnish-Swedish historian and statesman

Others

• Yrjö Jahnsson Prize , award for European economists
• (2804) Yrjö , an asteroid of the main belt named after Yrjö Väisälä