Given name & surname
Sirkka
“cricket”·“cotyledon”
Sirkka is a feminine given name. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sirkka is built from elements meaning “cricket” and “cotyledon”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Sirkka as a surname developed from Sigfrid.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sirkka through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 0 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1916. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sirkka’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Sirkka as a surname developed from the Swedish form Sigfrid. In Finnish usage, Sirkka has a related form in SIRKKU.
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 Sirkka
- Sirkka PolkunenFinnish cross-country skier1927–2014
- Sirkka TurkkaFinnish poet and author (1939–2021)
- Sirkka HämäläinenFinnish economistborn 1939
- Sirkka SeljaFinnish poet1920–2017
- Sirkka SariFinnish actress1920–1939
- Sirkka SalonenFinnish model and actress1917–1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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