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Estonian
Proper noun
Toivo
- a male given name borrowed from Finnish Toivo
Finnish
Etymology
From toivo (“hope”). Judging by place names (names of farmsteads), it was a personal name in pre-Christian Finland. The given name was revived in the 19th century.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Toivo
- a male given name
1969, Anu Kaipainen, Magdaleena ja maailman lapset, WSOY, page 140:Hänen nimensä oli vanhanaikaisesti Toivo, eikä hän pitänyt siitä nimestä. Äiti oli antanut sen hänelle muistoksi metsätiestä ja ihmeestä. Äiti oli pannut toivonsa häneen, eikä niin pidä tehdä: sellainen toivo näännyttää lapsen kuin lapsen ja vielä äidinkin kaupanpäällisiksi.- His name was an old-fashioned Toivo, and he did not like it. His mother had given it to him as a memory of the forest road and of the miracle. She had rest her hope in him, but that should not be done: that kind of hope will starve any child and the mother as well to top it off.
1989, Salme Aejmelaeus, Kaksi lakeutta. Isovanhempieni tarina, Karisto, →ISBN, page 172:Pojalle ei kuitenkaan annettu Penjami-nimeä, vaan poika kastettiin Toivoksi, pastori Brummerin mukaan. Terijoella oli niihin aikoihin lukuisia pieniä Toivoja.- The boy however was not named Penjami, but was christened Toivo after pastor Brummer. Back then Terijoki had many little Toivos.
2010, Mika Torkkel, Eliittisukeltaja, BoD - Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 7:Hyvinhän minä sillä Toivo-nimellä toimeen tulin ensimmäiset kymmenen vuotta, mutta sitten alkoi vähän etoa, kun minusta Toivo-nimi rupesi tuntumaan vähän samantapaiselta kuin esimerkiksi Sulo, Vieno, Uuno, Eemeli tai joku muu samantapainen. Joten aloin käyttää nimeä Topi, joka tuntui heti paljon paremmalta.- I did get along well with the Toivo name for the first ten years, but then it started to disgust me a bit, when it began to feel like for example Sulo, Vieno, Uuno, Eemeli or something like that. So I started using the name Topi, which felt a lot better right away.
- a Finnish surname
Declension
Statistics
- Toivo is the 95th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 7,467 male individuals (and as a middle name to 10,537 more), and also belongs to 5 female individuals (and as a middle name to 11 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- Toivo is the 2792nd (tied with 11 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 283 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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