Given name
Virve
“flicker, ripple”
Virve is a feminine given name. It is used in Finnish and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Virve goes back to a word meaning “flicker, ripple.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Virve’s family of names
In Estonian usage, Virve shares a linguistic root with the Finnish form VIRPI.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Virve
- Vicky RostiFinnish singerborn 1958
- Kihnu VirveEstonian folk singer (1928–2022)
- Virve RoolaidEstonian athletics competitor (born 1933)
- Virve AruojaEstonian actor and film director (1922-2013)
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