Pietilä

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a Finnish surname transferred from the given name (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries

/ˈpie̞̯t̪ilæ/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary

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Pietilä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country: 8,431 people, counted by DVV.

  • FIFinland1 in 661(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 110K
  • USUnited States1 in 375K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)

8,431 people

Record sources
167 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 661 (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 Pietila in US United States.

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 Pietilä

  • Finnish:/ˈpie̞̯t̪ilæ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

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 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Pietilä is found

(measured from records)

Pietilä 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 Pietilä is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#3968,4311 in 6618.4KPietilä37
US United States—8861 in 375K932Pietila167
SE Sweden—931 in 110K93Pietilä9
EE Estonia—≈22 est.≈1 in 62KlistedPietilä8
NO Norway—≈9 est.≈1 in 591K—Pietilä3

8,431 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 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Pietilä is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Pietilå, Pietilá, Pietila

  • Finnish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Brazil, Canada

    Languages: Finnish, Spanish, Chinese

    Also written Pietila

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Pietila

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Finland, Burkina Faso

    Also written Pietila

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Pietila

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States

    Also written Pietila

14 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)
191019201930Tuulikki Pietilä, b. 1917Reima Pietilä, b. 1923Raili Pietilä, b. 1926

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 Pietilä, (English)
InformalHyvä ,Hello, (English)

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

What does the name Pietilä mean, and where does it come from?
a Finnish surname transferred from the given name Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Pietilä?
In the etymology graph, Pietari is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Pietilä?
In Finnish /ˈpie̞̯t̪ilæ/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Pietilä?
In Finland, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Pietilä, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pietilä. After it come United States, Sweden, Estonia and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Pietilä most common?
Pietilä is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 661 people carrying it.
How common is the name Pietilä?
In Finland, the national register counted 8,431 people named Pietilä, about 1 in 661 residents.
How common is Pietilä compared with other names?
In Finland, Pietilä is the 396th 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, “Pietilä” — ranked 197th in Finland (DVV). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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