msmckagen's Personal Name List
Aino
Gender:
Feminine
Usage:
Finnish, Estonian, Finnish Mythology
Pronounced:
IE-no
(
Finnish
)
Means
"the only one"
in Finnish. In the Finnish epic the
Kalevala
this is the name of a girl who drowns herself when she finds out she must marry the old man
Väinämöinen
.
Perttu
Gender:
Masculine
Usage:
Finnish
Pronounced:
PEHRT-too
Finnish form of
Bartholomew
.
Torsten
Gender:
Masculine
Usage:
Swedish, Danish, German
Pronounced:
TOSH-tehn
(
Swedish
)
TAWRS-tən
(
German
)
From the Old Norse name
Þórsteinn
, which meant
"Thor's stone"
from the name of the Norse god
Þórr
(see
Thor
) combined with
steinn
"stone".
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