Marjatta (IPA: arjatːa is a

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female given name. Its nameday is celebrated on the 15th of August. It reached its peak of popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. As of 2013 there were more than 123,000 women registered with this name in Finland. It is listed by the Finnish Population Register Centre as one of the top 10 most popular female given names ever.

Origin and variants

Marjatta is related to Marja and first appeared in the

Kalevala The ''Kalevala'' ( fi, Kalevala, ) is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and r ...

Notable people

Notable people with this name include: *

Marjatta Kajosmaa Ritva Marjatta Kajosmaa (born 3 February 1938 in Vehkalahti) is a Finnish former cross-country skier who competed during the 1970s. She competed in two Winter Olympics, earning a total of four medals. Kajosmaa also competed several times at the ...

(born 1938), Finnish cross country skier * Marjatta Moulin (born 1926), Finnish fencer * Marjatta Raita (1944-2007), Finnish actress * Marjatta Tapiola (born 1951), Finnish painter * Marjatta Väänänen (1923-2020), Finnish politician

References

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