Leppänen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Finnish surname from landscape, of w:Virtanen type
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/leppænen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leppänen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 233(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 25K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 44K
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)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 233 (inferred from the name graph)
23,872 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leppanen in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 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)
a Finnish surname from landscape, of w:Virtanen type
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leppänen 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 | #71 | 23,872 | 1 in 233 | 24K | Leppänen | 59 |
| SE Sweden | — | 407 | 1 in 25K | 407 | Leppänen | 23 |
| US United States | — | 369 | 1 in 901K | 396 | Leppanen | 99 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 436K | — | Leppanen | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 796K | — | Leppanen | 15 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Leppanen | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 29 | 1 in 202K | 29 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 34 | Leppänen | 6 |
23,872 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Lauri Leppänenb. 1895FIFinnish sculptor (1895–1977)
- Glory Leppänenb. 1901FIFinnish actress (1901-1979)
- Kaisu Leppänenb. 1904FIFinnish actress (1904–1993)
- Urpo Leppänenb. 1944FIFinnish politician (1944-2010)
- Antti Leppänenb. 1947FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Pirjo Leppänenb. 1949FIFinnish actress
- Johannes Leppänenb. 1949FIFinnish politician
- Reijo Leppänenb. 1951FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Mari Leppänenb. 1978FIFinnish Lutheran bishop
- Linda Leppänenb. 1990FIFinnish ice hockey player and coach
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 24K | #31 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 10K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 407 | #2,242 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 34 | #3,100 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 29 | #17,245 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 29 | #3,667 |
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 Leppänen mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname from landscape, of w:Virtanen type Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Leppänen?
- In the etymology graph, Lepistö and Leppälä are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Leppänen?
- A machine transcription gives /leppænen/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Leppänen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Leppänen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leppänen.
- Where is Leppänen most common?
- Leppänen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 233 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Leppänen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 23,872 people named Leppänen, about 1 in 233 residents.
- How common is Leppänen compared with other names?
- In Finland, Leppänen is the 71st most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leppänen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lepp%C3%A4nenThe 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, “Leppänen” — the 71st most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.