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Re: What does this name mean?
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I found, it is a Finnish variant of Jeremia.
(Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch I-IV, 2000 ff.)
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Hello Andy, you beat me by two minutes :)I found on the Internet that all the names Jarkko, Jarmo, Jarno, Jere, Jeremias, and Jorma have their name day/saint's day on the 26th of June i.e. just yesterday, so I strongly suspected a connection between Jarmo and Jeremy, but could not prove it...
Rene     www.AboutNames.ch

This message was edited 6/27/2005, 11:00 AM

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