Entry № 10446 · Finnish origin

Tellervo Tellervo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEL-ler-voh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Finnish
Meaning
"Finnish forest goddess"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Finnish)

A name that means "finnish forest goddess".

Tellervo is the Finnish forest goddess from the Kalevala — daughter of Tapio (god of the forest) and Mielikki (forest queen). Protector of forest creatures and the moss.

Tellervo is widely used in Finland.

Forest goddess. The Finnish Kalevala daughter.

The name in its native script.

Tellervo
Transliteration
Tellervo
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɛl.lər.voʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tellervo stands.

Tellervo does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tellervos before her.

Real people
Tellervo Koivisto
Finnish First Lady.
born 1929
In fiction
Tellervo
Kalevala forest goddess.
Finnish national epic

Names connected to Tellervo.

The number behind Tellervo.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tellervo reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.