Given name · also Swedish
Taru
“legend”
Taru is a feminine given name from Swedish, ultimately from Danish. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Taru comes from Swedish, and ultimately from Danish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Taru’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Taru has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dagmar.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Taru
- Taru KuoppaFinnish archerborn 1983
- Taru ValjakkaFinnish singer and musicologistborn 1938
- Taru RinneFinnish motorcycle racerborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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