Venla is from the Finnish Venla — possibly from the Karelian Wendla (Slavic origin). A modern American baby name in the broader Finnish heritage aesthetic. Venla is the foundational feminine character of *Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers** (Seitsemän veljestä*, 1870) — widely considered the foundational novel of Finnish-language literature and one of the foundational works of 19th-century Finnish national identity. Venla is the foundational young woman the seven brothers all unsuccessfully court — central to the foundational Finnish national epic of rural life. Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) is widely considered the foundational father of Finnish-language literature. Today Venla is among the most-popular Finnish girls' names of the 2010s-2020s — consistently in the top 5 Finnish girls' names. The foundational Venla Award (Telvis-palkinto) is the foundational Finnish television award.
Featured throughout Finnish heritage.
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Venla reduces to six.