Teemu
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Vernacular form of biblical Nikodemus (“Nicodemus”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Teemu
- a male given name
- 1864, Aleksis Kivi, Nummisuutarit, SKS, published 1956, act II:
- Ole hyvässä rauhassa, Teemu, ja hellitäppä taasen viulustasi iloinen polska!
- Be in peace, Teemu, and let your violin play a jolly polska again!
- 1994, Anja Angel, Vaitiolo taattu, WSOY, →ISBN, page 35:
- Mattoa läimiessään hän päätti ottaa taiteilijanimekseen Timin. Teemu oli lapsesta saakka inhonnut nimeään. Mielessään hän oli yhdistänyt Teemun tossuun, kunnes Teemu Selänne oli alkanut pärjätä kiekkokaukalossa.
- He decided to take Tim as his pen name while beating the carpet. Teemu had loathed his name since childhood. He had always associated the name Teemu with a slipper, until Teemu Selänne had begun to do well in ice hockey.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of Teemu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Teemu | Teemut | |
| genitive | Teemun | Teemujen | |
| partitive | Teemua | Teemuja | |
| illative | Teemuun | Teemuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Teemu | Teemut | |
| accusative | nom. | Teemu | Teemut |
| gen. | Teemun | ||
| genitive | Teemun | Teemujen | |
| partitive | Teemua | Teemuja | |
| inessive | Teemussa | Teemuissa | |
| elative | Teemusta | Teemuista | |
| illative | Teemuun | Teemuihin | |
| adessive | Teemulla | Teemuilla | |
| ablative | Teemulta | Teemuilta | |
| allative | Teemulle | Teemuille | |
| essive | Teemuna | Teemuina | |
| translative | Teemuksi | Teemuiksi | |
| abessive | Teemutta | Teemuitta | |
| instructive | — | Teemuin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Statistics
[edit]- Teemu is the 23rd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 20,101 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,456 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.