Lepistö

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 763K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 620
  • SESweden1 in 68K

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 Lepistö 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)

8,990 people

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 620 (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 Lepisto in US United States, DE Germany.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lepistö 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 Lepistö is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#4608,9901 in 6209KLepistö40
US United States—4361 in 763K436Lepisto128
SE Sweden—1511 in 68K151Lepistö14
AR Argentina—221 in 2.1M22——
DE Germany—≈9 est.≈1 in 8.6M—Lepisto7
CH Switzerland—71 in 1.2M7—2
EE Estonia—≈5 est.≈1 in 234K26Lepistö4

8,990 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lepistö is also recorded as 5 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 Lepisto

  • Finnish surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Argentina, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Spanish, Chinese

    Also written Lepisto, Lépisto

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Lepisto

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Finland, United States

    Also written Lepisto

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Lepisto

16 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)

1850190019502000Juho Lepistö, b. 1861Matti Lepistö, b. 1901Pirkko Lepistö, b. 1922Eeli Lepistö, b. 1926Timo Lepistö, b. 1937Jussi Lepistö, b. 1960Markku Lepistö, b. 1963Sami Lepistö, b. 1984Laura Lepistö, b. 1988Lotta Henttala, b. 1989

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 Lepistö, (English)
InformalHyvä ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Lepistö
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—9K#178
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—4K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—151#5,200
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20247#79,838

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 are other forms of the name Lepistö?
In the etymology graph, Leppänen is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Lepistö?
A machine transcription gives /lepistø/ (IPA) for Finnish.
In which country does Lepistö have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Lepistö, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lepistö.
Where is Lepistö most common?
Lepistö is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 620 people carrying it.
How common is the name Lepistö?
In Finland, the national register counted 8,990 people named Lepistö, about 1 in 620 residents.
How common is Lepistö compared with other names?
In Finland, Lepistö is the 460th 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, “Lepistö” — the 460th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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