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Finnish
Etymology
A 19th century creation from siviä, a dialectal form of siveä (“chaste”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Siviä
- (now rare as a first name) a female given name
1968, Venny Kontturi, Kankurikello, Gummerus, page 33:—Keksi sitte itte nimes, sanoi äiti. —Minen ainakaa viitti enempää päätäni sillä asialla vaivata.
—Eiköhän laiteta Siviä. Siinä olis likkalapselle enteellistä vartehen otettavaa koko elämänsä iäksi. Ja niin päätettiin. Vauvasta tehtiin Siviä Orvokki.
—Siviä ja nöyrä sinun tulee olla...ja sitähän sorttia, naisihminen eniten tarvitteeki jumalansiunaukseen lisäksi, arveli äiti.- —You come up with the name then, mother said. —I'm not gonna spend any more time racking my head on that.
—It's gonna be Siviä. That's a name for a baby girl for her to remember her entire life. And so was done. The baby was named Siviä Orvokki.
—Chaste and humble you shall be...and so on, that's just what a woman needs the most in addition to God's blessings, mother reckoned.
Declension
Statistics
- The given name Siviä belongs to 46 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,134 more, making it overwhelmingly more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.