Entry № 9772 · Other origin

Sirpa Sirpa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SEER-pah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Splinter / piece"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Finnish)

A name that means "splinter / piece".

Sirpa is from the Finnish Sirpa — splinter, piece, fragment — coined as a modern Finnish-language feminine name during the Finnish national language revival (1860s-1920s, Fennoman movement). Sirpa is one of the modern Finnish feminine names.

Splinter / piece (Finnish).

The name in its native script.

Sirpa
Transliteration
Sirpa
Pronunciation
/ ˈsiːr.pə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sirpa stands.

Sirpa 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.

Sirpas before her.

Real people
Sirpa Pietikäinen
Finnish MEP 2008-present + former Minister of Environment 1991-95.
born 1959
In fiction
Sirpa
Finnish splinter / piece.

Names connected to Sirpa.

The number behind Sirpa.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sirpa reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.