Reinikainen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/ˈrei̯nikɑi̯nen/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Reinikainen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Equivalent to Reinikka + -inen.
- FIFinland1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 72K
- 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
5,259 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Equivalent to Reinikka + -inen.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Reinikainen 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 | #358 | 5,259 | 1 in 1.1K | 5.3K | Reinikainen | 56 |
| SE Sweden | — | 141 | 1 in 72K | 141 | Reinikainen | 22 |
| US United States | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 6.4M | listed | Reinikainen | 33 |
| DK Denmark | — | 18 | 1 in 326K | 18 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 204K | listed | Reinikainen | 3 |
5,259 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Oskari Reinikainenb. 1885FIFinnish politician (1885-1969)
- Jussi Reinikainenb. 1889FIFinnish veterinarian (1889-1969)
- Antti Reinikainenb. 1910FIFinnish ornithologist, biologist, teacher
- Veikko Reinikainenb. 1920FIFinnish lawyer
- Raimo Reinikainenb. 1939FIFinnish painter (born 1939)
- Pekka Reinikainenb. 1947FIFinnish politician
- Paul Reinb. 1965SEnot in their usual nameSwedish songwriter
- Janne Reinikainenb. 1969FIFinnish actor and director
- Tepa Reinikainenb. 1976FIFinnish athletics competitor
- Janne Reinikainenb. 1981FIFinnish football 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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 5.3K | #347 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 2.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 141 | #5,505 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,876 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 18 | #25,615 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Reinikainen mean, and where does it come from?
- Equivalent to Reinikka + -inen. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Reinikainen?
- In the etymology graph, Reino is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Reinikainen?
- In Finnish /ˈrei̯nikɑi̯nen/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Reinikainen have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Reinikainen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reinikainen.
- Where is Reinikainen most common?
- Reinikainen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Reinikainen?
- In Finland, the national register counted 5,259 people named Reinikainen, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Reinikainen compared with other names?
- In Finland, Reinikainen is the 358th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reinikainenThe 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, “Reinikainen” — the 358th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.