Given name & surname
Hannu
Hannu is used as a given name and a surname. Hannu is connected with JoHn.
Original GermanHans
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Hannu possibly comes from Middle Low German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Hannu is used as a form of JoHn.
Hannu’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Hannu has a nickname in Hanski. Hannu is a form of John. In Finnish usage, Hannu has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jean.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Hannu has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Hannu
- Hannu MikkolaFinnish rally driver, winner of the 1983 World Rally Championship for Drivers (1942–2021)
- Hannu SalamaFinnish writerborn 1936
- Hannu TihinenFinnish footballerborn 1976
- Hannu ManninenFinnish Nordic combined skier and airline pilotborn 1978
- Hannu PatronenFinnish footballerborn 1984
- Hannu SiitonenFinnish athletics competitor (born 1949)
- Hannu Virtaice hockey playerborn 1963
- Hannu LintuFinnish conductorborn 1967
- Hannu RajaniemiFinnish businessman and writerborn 1978
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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