Pirjo
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thumb|right|200px|Pirjo Honkasalo, Finnish filmmaker thumb|right|200px|Pirjo Muranen, Finnish cross country skier Pirjo is a Finnish female given name. Its name day is celebrated on 7 October. It began to be used in the 1920s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. As of 2013 there are 34,650 women with this name in Finland.
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Vinony's link graph records 1 inbound reference to Pirjo, and connects out to Finland, name day and Brigid.
It is catalogued under topics including Feminine given names and Finnish feminine given names.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- female given name
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- language of work or name
- Estonian
- name day
- October 7
- native label
- Pirjo
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- P620
- Cologne phonetics
- 17
- Caverphone
- PY1111
- Commons category
- Pirjo (given name)
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thumb|right|200px|Pirjo Honkasalo, Finnish filmmaker thumb|right|200px|Pirjo Muranen, Finnish cross country skier Pirjo is a Finnish female given name. Its name day is celebrated on 7 October. It began to be used in the 1920s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. As of 2013 there are 34,650 women with this name in Finland.
==Origin and variants== The name Pirjo originated as a short form of Birgitta and Piritta, Finnish versions of Brigid. A common variant is Pirkko.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pirjo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.