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Estonian
Proper noun
Kaisa
- a female given name, variant of Katariina (“Catherine”)
Finnish
Etymology
Medieval diminutive of Katariina, cognate to Swedish Kajsa.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kaisa
- a female given name
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 9 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
Tullut ompi Kuppa-Kaisa, / Hemmon sauna ryöhää.- Cupper-Kaisa has arrived / And Hemmo's sauna's smoking.
1986, Vuokko Tolonen, Lastenhuone, Otava, →ISBN, page 19:—Teiltä puuttuu lapsen nimiehdotus, hän sanoo lääketehtaan mainoskynä kädessään. —Varmuuden vuoksi, hän sanoo painokkaasti. Hän painaa terän esille ja on jo melkein kirjoittanut nimen omasta päästään. Me ajattelimme, ettemme anna nimeä ennen kuin näemme lapsen, tytön.
—Kaisa, sanon koska se tulee ensimmäisenä mieleen.- ...says "You don't have a suggested name yet" with a pen branded after a pharmaceutical factory in hand, and continues "just in case", extends the pen's tip and has almost already written the name out from memory. We thought that we wouldn't give a name until we had seen the child, the girl.
—Kaisa, I say because that's the first name that comes to mind.
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Statistics
- Kaisa is the 63rd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 10,994 female individuals (and as a middle name to 8,314 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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