Ojanperä
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/ˈojɑnˌperæ/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Ojanperä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country: 2,966 people, counted by DVV.
- FIFinland1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 268K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,966 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ojanpera in FI Finland, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 3 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.
How to pronounce Ojanperä
- Finnish:/ˈojɑnˌperæ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ojanperä is found
(measured from records)Ojanperä 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 | 2,966 | 1 in 1.9K | 3K | Ojanpera | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 38 | 1 in 268K | 38 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Ojanpera | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 5 | Ojanpera | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Ojanpera | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Ojanpera | 8 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | — | — | Ojanpera | 1 |
2,966 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling ojanperä. 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Abraham Ojanperäb. 1856FIFinnish singer and opera singer (1856–1916)
- Olavi Ojanperäb. 1921FICanoe racer
- Antti Ojanperäb. 1983FIFinnish footballer
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ojanperä?
- In Finnish /ˈojɑnˌperæ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ojanperä?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Ojanperä, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ojanpera. After it come Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ojanperä most common?
- Ojanperä is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ojanperä?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,966 people named Ojanperä, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ojanperä?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ojanper%C3%A4The 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, “Ojanperä” — ranked 667th in Finland (DVV). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.