[Surname] Re: Meaning of these Finnish surnames
by Aino (guest)
1/16/2016, 3:19 PM
Unfortunately Virén and Väyrynen don't mean anything. -nen is a very common suffix with Finnish surnames and it can mean several thing. Väyry(nen) might have meant something in old Finnish but nothing in modern days. The Finnish language doesn't use é so Virén is probably not a Finnish surname in origin. It might be Swedish, Estonian or German. You already figured out the meaning for Niemimäki, it literally is just two words together: peninsula + hill.