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Estonian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Paavo (genitive , partitive )
- a male given name, equivalent to English Paul
Finnish
Etymology
The traditional short form of biblical Paavali (“Paul”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Paavo
- a male given name
- 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 11 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):
Peeveli! sanonpa kuin ennen Jaakkolan Paavo, se korea poika: »kävishän tämä elämä laatuun ilman yhtä päivää vuodessa, ilman tuota kirottua kinkeripäivää», sanoi hän.- I'll quote that fine boy Paavo Jaakkola, who said: "Life would be all right with one less day in the year, that damned reading day".
1946, Anni Swan, Pauli on koditon, WSOY, published 1960, page 70:—Sanokaa Paavoksi. Paulihan se on nimeltään, mutta se on vain turhan herraskainen nimi.
—Mikäs, tuumi Kaapo, —nimihän se on Paavokin.- —Call me Paavo. He is actually named Pauli, but that just sounds too fanciful.
—Sure, Kaapo thought, —Paavo's a name too.
1990, Riitta Vartti, Sun lapsuutes, Gummerus, →ISBN, page 512:Taito-eno ravisteli unia silmistään ja nousi kättelemään Paavoa. [ - - - ] —Jaa, ja se on nyt sitte se Paavo Särkkä. On oikei vanhanaikane miehen nimi nin kun Saarjärven Paavo ennen vanhaa.- Uncle Taito tried to shake the dreams off his eyes and rose up to give Paavo a handshake. —Well, so you're Paavo Särkkä. That's a true old-fashioned name like Paavo Sarrjärvi back in the day.
- The letter P in the Finnish spelling alphabet.
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Statistics
- Paavo is the 71st most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 10,140 male individuals (and as a middle name to 6,269 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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