Jäntti

surname · Latin script

/jænti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jäntti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly from a diminutive of Johannes, or from Swedish jämte (“Jämtlander”).

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 992(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 173K
  • NONorway≈1 in 451K

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.

Finland (measured from records)

5,614 people

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 992 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Possibly from a diminutive of Johannes, or from Swedish jämte (“Jämtlander”).

Sources 1

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jäntti 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 Jäntti is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#6365,6141 in 9925.6KJäntti40
SE Sweden—591 in 173K59Jäntti6
NO Norway—≈12 est.≈1 in 451K—Jäntti3
DE Germany—≈11 est.≈1 in 7.5M—Jäntti9
PL Poland—21 in 19M2——

5,614 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Jäntti is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jantti

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Argentina, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jantti

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Jantti

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Jantti

19 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)

1850190019502000Jalmari Jäntti, b. 1876Toivo Jäntti, b. 1900Yrjö A. Jäntti, b. 1905Lauri Jäntti, b. 1909Ahti Jäntti, b. 1942Rane Raitsikka, b. 1965Markus Jäntti, b. 1966Pontus Jäntti, b. 1968Manna, b. 1977Jessica Jäntti, b. 1998

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)

FormalHyvä ,Dear Jäntti, (English)
InformalHyvä ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Jäntti
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—5.6K#325
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—2.4K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—59#11,014
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#342,210

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Jäntti mean, and where does it come from?
Possibly from a diminutive of Johannes, or from Swedish jämte (“Jämtlander”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Jäntti?
A machine transcription gives /jænti/ (IPA) for Finnish.
In which country does Jäntti have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Jäntti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jäntti.
Where is Jäntti most common?
Jäntti is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 992 people carrying it.
How common is the name Jäntti?
In Finland, the national register counted 5,614 people named Jäntti, about 1 in 992 residents.
How common is Jäntti compared with other names?
In Finland, Jäntti is the 636th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Jäntti” — the 636th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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