Kirsi is a Finnish female given name. Its nameday is celebrated on 24 July. It began to be used in the 1940s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. As of 2013 there are 23,000 women with this name in Finland.

Origin and variants

The name Kirsi originated as a short form of

Kristiina Kristiina is an Estonian and Finnish feminine given name. It is a cognate of the English and French given name Christine. Tiina is often used as a diminutive of Kristiina. People named Kristiina include: * Kristiina Brask (born 1990), Finnish p ...

, Finnish version of Christina or Kirsikka which means ''cherry'' in Finnish. It also means ''frost'' in Finnish.

Notable people

Notable people with this name include: * Kirsi Ahonen (born 1976), Finnish javelin thrower * Kirsi Boström (born 1968), Finnish orienteer *

Kirsi Hänninen Kirsi Maaria Hänninen (born 3 October 1976 in Joensuu, Finland) is a Finnish retired ice hockey Defenceman (ice hockey), defenceman and pesäpallo player. She played 116 games with the Finland women's national ice hockey team, Finnish national ...

(born 1976), Finnish ice hockey player *

Kirsi Heikkinen Kirsi Heikkinen (née Savolainen, born in Espoo, 26 September 1978) is a Finnish women's football referee. She has taken part in the 2009 European Championship, the 2011 World Cup and the 2012 Summer Olympics, and she refereed the final of th ...

(born 1978), Finnish football referee * Kirsi Helen (born 1982), Finnish cross-country skier *

Kirsi Kunnas Kirsi Marjatta Kunnas (14 December 1924 – 8 November 2021) was a Finnish poet, children's literature author and translator into Finnish. Her oeuvre consists of poems, fairy tale books, drama, translations (e.g. Lewis Carroll, Federico Garcí ...

(1924 - 2021), Finnish poet * Kirsi Lampinen (born 1972), Finnish tennis player *

Kirsi Mykkänen Kirsi Mykkänen (born 7 February 1978) is a Finnish sprinter. She competed in the women's 400 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. References 1978 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Finnish fe ...

(born 1978), Finnish sprinter *

Kirsi Ojansuu Kirsi Johanna Ojansuu (born 15 December 1963) is a Finnish politician and member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the Green League. She was first elected to parliament in 1999. In 2021 she became a temporary priest in Helsinki. Life Oja ...

(born 1963), Finnish politician *

Kirsi Peltonen Kirsi Peltonen is a Finnish mathematician whose research interests include differential geometry and the connections between mathematics and art. She is a Senior University Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis at Aalto U ...

, Finnish mathematician *

Kirsi Perälä Kirsi Helen (née Perälä, born May 6, 1982, in Forssa) is a Finnish cross-country skier who has competed since 2001. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she finished 19th in the individual sprint event. Helen also finished 23rd in the sp ...

(born 1982), Finnish cross-country skier *

Kirsi Piha Kirsi Katariina Piha (born 14 October 1967 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish Communications consultant and former politician. Piha's party is National Coalition Party. She was a member of City Council of Helsinki The City Council of Helsinki ...

(born 1967), Finnish politician *

Kirsi Rauta Kirsi Irene Rauta (born 17 March 1962 in Kouvola) is a retired female marathon runner from Finland. She represented her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, where she didn't finish in the women's marathon race. Sh ...

(born 1962), Finnish marathon runner *

Kirsi Välimaa Kirsi Välimaa-Antila (born 15 October 1978 in Jämijärvi, Satakunta) is a Finnish cross-country skier who competed from 1999 to 2008. Her lone World Cup victory was in a 4 × 5 km relay event in Sweden in 2005. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in ...

(born 1978), Finnish cross country skier * Kirsi Viilonen (better known as Kikka, 1964–2005), Finnish singer *

Kirsi Ylijoki Kirsi Marja Ylijoki (born 29 June 1969) is a Finnish actress and singer who first achieved fame for her role in the Finnish Soap Opera ''Sydän toivoa täynnä''. Several TV roles followed. In recent years she has held back her own career to r ...

(born 1969), Finnish actress

References

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