Parviainen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈpɑrʋiɑi̯nen/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Parviainen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 434(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 52K
- NONorway1 in 304K
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 Parviainen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 434 (inferred from the name graph)
12,835 people
recorded for this name
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 Парвиайнен in FI Finland, 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)a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Parviainen 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.
12,835 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling parviainen. 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)- Kaisa Parviainenb. 1914FIathletics competitor (1914–2002)
- Tuulikki Ukkolab. 1943FInot in their usual nameFinnish journalist and politician
- Jussi Parviainenb. 1955FIFinnish actor, director and producer
- Janne Parviainenb. 1973FIFinnish heavy metal drummer
- Aki Parviainenb. 1974FIFinnish javelin thrower
- Oona Parviainenb. 1977FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Olli-Poika Parviainenb. 1980FIFinnish politician
- Hannu-Pekka Parviainenb. 1981FIFinnish stunt performer
- Kalle Parviainenb. 1982FIFinnish footballer
- Emmi Parviainenb. 1985FIFinnish actress
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 13K | #111 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 5.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 198 | #4,191 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,245 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #77,846 |
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 Parviainen mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Parviainen?
- In Finnish /ˈpɑrʋiɑi̯nen/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Parviainen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Parviainen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled парвиайнен.
- Where is Parviainen most common?
- Parviainen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 434 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Parviainen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 12,835 people named Parviainen, about 1 in 434 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/parviainenThe 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, “Parviainen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.