Osmo is a
Finnish male
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
. It appears in
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 ...
, where it means "a young man". The name has been in use since the 1880s.
Name day for Osmo in Finland is 11 May.
People with the name Osmo
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Osmo Kontula (born 1951), Finnish sociologist
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Osmo Lindeman (1929–1987), Finnish composer
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Osmo Pekonen (1960–2022), Finnish mathematician
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Osmo Tapio Räihälä (born 1964), Finnish composer
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Osmo Soininvaara (born 1951), politician, previous member of the Finnish government
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Osmo Vänskä (born 1953), Finnish conductor
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Osmo Valtonen (1929–2002), Finnish artist
References
Finnish masculine given names
Masculine given names
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