Given name & surname
Panu
“fire, flame”
Panu is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Finnish.
Original LatinUrbanus
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Panu developed from Urbanus.
Panu’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Panu developed from the Latin form Urbanus.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Panu
- Panu Petteri HöglundFinnish writer and translatorborn 1966
- Panu AaltioFinnish composer and record producerborn 1982
- Panu KailaFinnish architectborn 1939
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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