Kullervo
Origin
Finnish
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
the doomed hero of the Kalevala; etymology genuinely disputed, variously linked to kulta ("gold"), an old root for "to tremble", or a word for "raven"
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kullervo has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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