Entry № 11204 · Finnish origin

Vellamo Vellamo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VEL-lah-moh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Finnish
Meaning
"Goddess of the sea"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "goddess of the sea".

Vellamo is the Finnish goddess of water and the sea in the Kalevala — mistress of waves, storms and fish. It carries deep, oceanic power.

Goddess of the sea — a Finnish name.

The name in its native script.

Vellamo
Transliteration
Vellamo
Pronunciation
/ ˈvɛl.la.mo /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vellamo stands.

Vellamo 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.

Vellamos before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Vellamo.

The number behind Vellamo.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vellamo reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.