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Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *päivä, from Proto-Uralic *päjwä.
Proper noun
Päivi
- a female given name
Finnish
Etymology
Short form of Päivikki, from päivä (“day, the sun”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Päivi
- a female given name
1950, Aino Räsänen, “...ja Helena soittaa”, in Soita minulle, Helena..Ja Helena soittaa, Karisto, published 2014, →ISBN, page 266:― Tuo tulee auringosta, ajatteli Junkkerin pikku Päivi ja ojensi vuoteessaan kätensä keltaiseen valovirtaan.- ― That's coming from the sun, the little Päivi Junkkeri thought and reached out her hand from bed into the yellow stream of light.
1990, Marjatta Koskenvesa, Lunta, sanoi perhonen, WSOY, →ISBN, page 12:Heti syksyllä, kun tyttö oli alkanut käydä puolipäiväosastolla, hänen puhuttelunimensä, Sari Päivikki, oli käytännön syistä vaihtunut Päiviksi ja samantien tietysti myös kotona. Leikkikoulussa oli osunut olemaan kuusi Sari-nimistä.- As autumn began and the girl started going to the preschool at noon, her nickname had turned from Sari Päivikki to Päivi for practical reasons, and also then at home. The same preschool happened to have six girls named Sari.
Usage notes
- The most common first name of women born in Finland in 1958 -1960.
Declension
Statistics
- Päivi is the 3rd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 29,789 female individuals (and as a middle name to 3,590 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.