Mäkinen

surname · Latin script

Meaning: hilly

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mäkinen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 117(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 15K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 23K

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)

47,677 people

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 117 (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 Makinen in US United States, CA Canada, EG Egypt 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)

hilly

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mäkinen 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 Mäkinen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#1447,6771 in 11748KMäkinen66
SE Sweden—6801 in 15K680Mäkinen24
US United States—5111 in 651K521Makinen118
EG Egypt—≈150 est.≈1 in 688K—Makinen3
CU Cuba—≈130 est.≈1 in 89K—Makinen2
CA Canada—≈110 est.≈1 in 348K—Makinen16
EE Estonia—≈53 est.≈1 in 23K31Mäkinen6

47,677 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); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)

Mäkinen is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written Makinen, Maekinen

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Mâkinen, Makinen, Mákinen

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, France, United States, Canada

    Also written Makinen

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Makinen

  • Khmer surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Makinen

26 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)

1850190019502000Kaarlo Mäkinen, b. 1892Aito Mäkinen, b. 1927Rauno Mäkinen, b. 1931Timo Mäkinen, b. 1938Kari Mäkinen, b. 1955Jarmo Mäkinen, b. 1958Tommi Mäkinen, b. 1964Anne Mäkinen, b. 1976Eveliina Mäkinen, b. 1995

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Mäkinen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—48K#4
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—19K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—680#1,427
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—31#3,467
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—22#4,922

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 Mäkinen mean, and where does it come from?
hilly Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How common is the name Mäkinen?
In Finland, the national register counted 47,677 people named Mäkinen, about 1 in 117 residents.
How common is Mäkinen compared with other names?
In Finland, Mäkinen is the 14th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
What are other forms of the name Mäkinen?
In the etymology graph, Mäkelä, Mäki and Mäenpää are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Mäkinen have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 48 thousand people named Mäkinen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mäkinen.
Where is Mäkinen most common?
Mäkinen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 117 people carrying it.

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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, “Mäkinen” — the 14th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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