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Riitta
There are two different suggestions to the origin of my name.

Riitta is probably a Finnish shortening from English name Birgitta that comes from the original name Bridget...Now that I think about it there might be some slight similarities with Miss Jones and me 😃.

The other suggestion is that the name comes from international name Rita. Rita originally comes from Creek or Italian name Margarita. Its translation from Creek is a pearl and Spanish translation refers to a daisy.

Name Riitta runs in our family trough generations.

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Hello, I'm Nina and my mother gave me my name. My name is often written with two ‘I’s in Finland (Niina), but my mum insisted on the more international way of writing it. She wanted me to become an internationally minded and openhearted person. In English, the name Nina means favor and grace. Nina also means ‘a girl’ in Spanish, and I happen to be the only girl in my father’s family (my father only had brothers, all my cousins from his side of the family are male, and their children, as well as mine, are all boys).

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I have heard that my parents gave me my combination name Anna-Kaisa because it was a little bit trendy at that time. My grandma was called Anna and my fathers sister’s name is Kaisa, that could have been also reasons for my name.

Anna comes from Greece and it means favour or grace. Anna is the most popular girl´s name in 1900-2016 in Finland. Kaisa is a nordic shortening from Katarina, possibly from Greek word “Katharós”, which means pure.

My surname is very rare, we are only five Laesharjus in the whole world.

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My name is Mikko and it is a very common name in Finland. It was the most common name given to boys in 1978, when I was born.  There is over 35 000 Mikko`s in Finland at the moment.  The name Mikko is a finnish translation of the hebrew name Michael. The name Mikko has been used a lot in my family; every generation in my family has one Mikko. My second name Aapi is a Lappish name; it means “an old man”.   My third name Kullervo comes from Finnish national epic poetry “the Kalevala”. MY Surname Nurmi means a place where you can find grass. My surname comes from a place called “Nurmi”.

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Hello from cold Slovenia. My name comes from Greek and it means honey, a bee. There is no special story behind my name. The name Melita is not very common in our country, but one can find it in all generations.
Our family name comes from the father's side of the family.

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My name is Laura and it is a very common name in Finland. The year I was born, it was the most common name given to girls.  It’s pronounced similarly to Italian in Finnish. My parents chose it because it’s a very international name.  It comes from Latin, meaning “bay laurel plant”.  According to the etymology of the name, it represents victory and strength. My surname Autio means desert in English. If my mother had kept her maiden name I would have a Swedish surname Ahlskog.

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Neither my Given name nor my Family name has a meaning in Finnish. They are just names, nothing else.
Family names normally come from the father's side of family. Often Family names can be related to the place where the family used to live. Often they are also nature-related. Family names quite often end in the letters "-nen".
In Given names we often have double letters in Finland, for example Pekka, Mikko, Essi, Kalle, Markku, Jenni, Ulla.

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My name is Hebrew and means “life“. According to the Bible, Eva was the first woman created by God, so she is supposed to be the mother of all mankind. My father liked the name and since my family name is rather long, both my brother and I have short first names.

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My name is LINDA and it was chosen by my father in 1980- an extremely cold winter day as my mother has told me. This is quite common name in Latvia- the country by the Baltic sea in the Northern Europe, but its origins come from Spanish, as much as I have read. In Spanish it means "beautiful".. :) I have been to Spanish speaking countries and obviously when I introduced myself- almost everyone went like- oh bella, bella, which is from Italian of course, but yes- my name is international and does not require much explanation!:) See you all soon!

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The name Jolanta is a Polish name and it means - a violet flower. My mom liked Tchaikovsky opera “Iolanta” and she decided to give this beautiful name her
first child. It was I. :) Jolanta is the only given name of 3317 persons in
Latvia.

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Linda
My name means "beautiful" from Spanish. This name is quite common in Latvia and was given to me by my father. After a long debate among females in my family after my birth, my dad decided- Linda. It was not very popular name in those days in 1980 but nowadays it is more popular.