Osmo is a Finnish male given name. 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 an ...

, where it means "a young man". The name has been in use since the 1880s.

Name day In Christianity, a name day is a tradition in many countries of Europe and the Americas, among other parts of Christendom. It consists of celebrating a day of the year that is associated with one's baptismal name, which is normatively that of ...

for Osmo in Finland is 11 May.

People with the name Osmo

* Osmo Kontula (born 1951), Finnish sociologist * Osmo Lindeman (1929–1987), Finnish composer * Osmo Pekonen (1960–2022), Finnish mathematician * Osmo Tapio Räihälä (born 1964), Finnish composer *

Osmo Soininvaara Osmo Heikki Kristian Soininvaara (born 2 September 1951 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician and writer. He served as Minister of Social Services in Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet between 14 April 2000 and 19 April 2002. He was the leader of t ...

(born 1951), politician, previous member of the Finnish government *

Osmo Vänskä Osmo Antero Vänskä (born 28 February 1953) is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist, and composer. Biography Vänskä started his musical career as an orchestral clarinetist with the Turku Philharmonic (1971–76). He then became the principal cl ...

(born 1953), Finnish conductor * Osmo Valtonen (1929–2002), Finnish artist

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