Jylhä

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Imposing with greatness, austerity, or gloominess; awe-inspiring, majestic

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

Jylhä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 104K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 234K

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)

3,437 people

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jylha in US United States.

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)

Imposing with greatness, austerity, or gloominess; awe-inspiring, majestic.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jylhä 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 Jylhä is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#7103,4371 in 1.6K3.4KJylhä25
SE Sweden—981 in 104K98Jylhä10
US United States—≈91 est.≈1 in 3.7MlistedJylha12
EE Estonia—≈5 est.≈1 in 234KlistedJylhä3

3,437 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). 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)

Jylhä is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Jylha, Jylhae

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jylha

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Jylha

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Finland

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Jylha

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Jylha

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, France

    Also written Jylha

  • Russian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Jylha, Юльхя

  • Turkish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jylha

  • Italian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jylha

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)

190019502000Yrjö Jylhä, b. 1903Rakel Jylhä, b. 1907Konsta Jylhä, b. 1910Kari Jylhä, b. 1939Aulikki Jylhä, b. 1941Juhani Jylhä, b. 1946Marja Jylhä, b. 1953Pekka Jylhä, b. 1955Martti Jylhä, b. 1987

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 Jylhä, (English)
InformalHyvä ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Jylhä
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—3.4K#561
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—1.8K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—98#7,303

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Jylhä mean, and where does it come from?
Imposing with greatness, austerity, or gloominess; awe-inspiring, majestic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Jylhä?
A machine transcription gives /ˈjylhæ/ (IPA) for Finnish.
In which country does Jylhä have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Jylhä, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jylhä.
Where is Jylhä most common?
Jylhä is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Jylhä?
In Finland, the national register counted 3,437 people named Jylhä, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
How common is Jylhä compared with other names?
In Finland, Jylhä is the 710th 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, “Jylhä” — the 710th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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