Nokia is a well-known telecommunications infrastructure company, and was once the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer. If the meaning of the name Nokia, do many already know?
Let's take a look at Nokia's history. Nokia was founded in 1865 or more than a century ago, by a Finnish and Swedish engineer, Fredrik Idestam. Initially, Nokia was a pulp mill company located near the city of Tampere, Finland.
As quoted by us from Tech Spit, the second factory opened in 1868 near the first factory, in a city called Nokia. Well, this is where the name Nokia comes from, namely from the city where it was founded.
In 1871, Idestam and a friend named Leo Mechelin, founded a joint venture and called it Nokia, based on the location of their second factory.
Well, the meaning of the name Nokia itself is not really certain. In modern Finnish, noki means soot and Nokia is a plural word, although this word is used very rarely.
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The most common theory is that the name Nokia may have come from the ancient Finnish word nois or nokinaata, which means a kind of little weasel. After the animal became extinct, the word was applied to animals with black fur.
However, in subsequent research, the small civet is said to have never inhabited Finland, so the name nois may refer to the animal beaver.
So, the meaning of the name Nokia does not refer to various things. Unlike the case with Samsung which means three stars or Xiaomi is a small rice. Maybe because Nokia has been around for so long that its creators didn't really think much about the meaning of a name.