Finér

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries

/fineːr/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated

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Finér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Occupational surname for a refiner of metals.

  • FIFinland1 in 27K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 81K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 280Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

677 people, 2010

Record sources
207 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Finer in US United States, GB United Kingdom, FI Finland and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Occupational surname for a refiner of metals.

Cited for this meaning 4

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Finér counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Finér is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6771 in 491K682Finer207
GB United Kingdom≈240 est.≈1 in 284KlistedFiner69
FI Finland2051 in 27K205Finer9
SE Sweden1261 in 81K126Finer11
CA Canada≈81 est.≈1 in 511K—Finer41
NZ New Zealand≈58 est.≈1 in 91K—Finer29
EE Estonia≈3 est.≈1 in 408Klisted—3

677 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Finér is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Danish

    Also written Finer

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Finer, Finèr

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Finer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Finer

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Finer

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Finer

  • Korean surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Finer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Finer

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalHej ,Dear Finér, (English)
InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Finér
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—205#7,324
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—129—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—126#6,011

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Finér mean, and where does it come from?
Occupational surname for a refiner of metals. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
How do you pronounce Finér?
It depends on the language: in Swedish /fineːr/; in Finnish /finer/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Finér have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 677 people named Finér, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled finer.
Where is Finér most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Finér is densest in Finland — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Finér?
In the United States, the national register counted 677 people named Finér in 2010, about 1 in 491 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Finér”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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