Mu ( Swede. My ) - Swedish female name, a variant of the name Maria . Apparently it happened as a nickname or an abbreviated version of the name Mary with the meaning "cool", "daring". [1] According to another version, the name was invented by the writer Tove Jansson for her character, Baby Mu, and after that gained popularity in Sweden. [2] [3] In Sweden, there are about 7,700 carriers (as of 2010). [four]
Famous Media
- Baby Mu is a character in a series of books by Tove Jansson about Moomins .
- Mu is the eldest daughter of programmer Michael Widenius , after whom the MySQL DBMS is named [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Historiska museet Nomina .
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Eva Brylla Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ SCB Namnsök unopened (unreachable link) . Date of treatment June 28, 2017. Archived February 25, 2011.
- ↑ MySQL History