Pitkänen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Finnish surname transferred from the nickname
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pit̪kæne̞n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pitkänen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 259(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
- SESweden1 in 39K
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
- 88 (measured from records)
- 1 in 259 (inferred from the name graph)
21,534 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pitkanen in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada.
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 nickname
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pitkänen 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 | #53 | 21,534 | 1 in 259 | 22K | Pitkänen | 53 |
| SE Sweden | — | 263 | 1 in 39K | 263 | Pitkänen | 18 |
| US United States | — | 151 | 1 in 2.2M | 160 | Pitkanen | 88 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 664K | — | Pitkanen | 23 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 639K | — | Pitkanen | 26 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 19 | Pitkänen | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 451K | — | Pitkänen | 3 |
21,534 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); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
- Ari Pitkänenb. 1876FIFinnish politician and journalist (1876-1938)
- Eino Pitkänenb. 1904FIFinnish architect (1904-1955)
- Paavo Pitkänenb. 1908FIFinnish writer
- Pauli Pitkänenb. 1911FIFinnish cross-country skier (1911-1941)
- Pekka Pitkänenb. 1927FIFinnish architect (1927–2018)
- Toimi Pitkänenb. 1928FIFinnish rower (1928-2016)
- Ilkka Pitkänenb. 1949FIFinnish crime writer
- Matti Pitkänenb. 1951FIcross-country skier
- Joni Pitkänenb. 1983FIice hockey player
- Ilmari Pitkänenb. 1990FIFinnish ice hockey player
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22K | #39 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 9.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 263 | #3,332 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 19 | #5,807 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 13 | #8,713 |
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 Pitkänen mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname transferred from the nickname Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pitkänen?
- A machine transcription gives /pit̪kæne̞n/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Pitkänen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Pitkänen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pitkänen.
- Where is Pitkänen most common?
- Pitkänen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 259 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pitkänen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 21,534 people named Pitkänen, about 1 in 259 residents.
- How common is Pitkänen compared with other names?
- In Finland, Pitkänen is the 53rd most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pitkänen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pitk%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, “Pitkänen” — the 53rd most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.