Terje

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Estonian

Etymology

From Estonian tera "grain", or from Terhenetär in the Kalevala, Finnish terhen "mist".

Proper noun

Terje

  1. a female given name.

Norwegian

Etymology

Variant of Torgeir made well known by the poem Terje Vigen (1862) by Henrik Ibsen.

Proper noun

Terje

  1. a male given name.

References

  • Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
  • [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk:21 907 males with the given name terje living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.
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