Tähtinen

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/ˈtæhtinen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tähtinen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: tähti (“star”) + -nen.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 1.1K
  • SESweden1 in 176K

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 Tähtinen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

4,852 people

Record sources
87 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tahtinen in FI Finland, US United States and Taehtinen in DE Germany.

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)

tähti (“star”) + -nen

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Tähtinen 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 Tähtinen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland4,8521 in 1.1K4.9KTahtinen13
US United States2301 in 1.4M274Tahtinen87
SE Sweden581 in 176K58—1
DE Germany≈8 est.≈1 in 9.5M—Taehtinen7
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——

4,852 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling tähtinen. 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tahtinen

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States

    Also written Tahtinen

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Finland

    Also written Tahtinen

  • Finnish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Italy, Colombia

    Languages: Finnish, Chinese, Spanish

    Also written Tahtinen

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Tahtinen

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Tahtinen

19 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)
19001920194019601980Jaakko Tähtinen, b. 1904Maire Tähtinen, b. 1926Eila Tähtinen, b. 1931Pentti Tähtinen, b. 1934Antti Tähtinen, b. 1935Risto K. Tähtinen, b. 1949Leena Tähtinen, b. 1955Anu Tähtinen, b. 1974Tero Tähtinen, b. 1978Markku Tähtinen, b. 1978

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 Tähtinen, (English)
InformalHyvä ,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Tähtinen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—4.9K#385
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—2K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—58#11,159
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370

Reference works 2

  • 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 Tähtinen mean, and where does it come from?
tähti (“star”) + -nen Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Tähtinen?
A machine transcription gives /ˈtæhtinen/ (IPA) for Finnish.
In which country does Tähtinen have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Tähtinen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tahtinen.
Where is Tähtinen most common?
Tähtinen is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tähtinen?
In Finland, the national register counted 4,852 people named Tähtinen, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.

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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, “Tähtinen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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