Kotilainen
surname · Latin script
/ko̞t̪ilɑi̯ne̞n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kotilainen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From koti (“home”) + -lainen.
- FIFinland1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 90K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kotilainen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,376 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Котилайнен in RU Russia.
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)
From koti (“home”) + -lainen.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kotilainen 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 4,376 | 1 in 1.3K | 4.4K | Kotilainen | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 113 | 1 in 90K | 113 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 132M | — | Котилайнен | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
4,376 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Otto Kotilainenb. 1868FIFinnish composer (1868–1936)
- Väinö Kotilainenb. 1887FIFinnish politician (1887-1959)
- Mauno Kotilainenb. 1895FIFinnish botanist (1895-1961)
- Teuvo Kotilainenb. 1925FIFinnish sculptor (1925-2010)
- Esa Kotilainenb. 1946FIFinnish musician
- Juha Kotilainenb. 1955FIFinnish opera singer
- Sirkku Kotilainenb. 1958FIFinnish professor
- Lari Kotilainenb. 1974FIFinnish linguist
- Marco Kotilainenb. 1986SESwedish association football player
- Sofia KotilainenFIFinnish researcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.4K | #427 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 113 | #6,534 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
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 Kotilainen mean, and where does it come from?
- From koti (“home”) + -lainen. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Kotilainen?
- A machine transcription gives /ko̞t̪ilɑi̯ne̞n/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Kotilainen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Kotilainen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kotilainen.
- Where is Kotilainen most common?
- Kotilainen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kotilainen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,376 people named Kotilainen, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kotilainen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kotilainenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kotilainen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.