Given name & surname

Ukko

“old man”

Ukko is a masculine given name. It is used in Finnish.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Ukko goes back to a word meaning “old man.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is Finnish.

The story

In mythological stories, Ukko is associated with the god of the sky and thunder.

Ukko’s family of names

In Finnish usage, Ukko shares a linguistic root with the Estonian form UKU. Ukko has a related form in Ucco. Ukko has a related form in Ucko.

Walk Ukko’s family in the name graph

UkkoUkoUcoUckoUccoUku

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 4

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.

Similar names

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Udjit

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Mythological

Uchdred

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Swedish · Mythological

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No U.S. birth series

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Mythological

Uranos

No U.S. birth series

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Mythological

Urainos

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Ukko’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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