Tapio
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: The god of forest
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tæpioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tapio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 26K
- SESweden≈1 in 77K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
3,698 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
The god of forest.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Tapio is read(measured from records)
Tapio is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Chinese25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tapio in Chinese.
- Finnish19%
The god of forest.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tapio in English.
- Portuguese11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tapio in Portuguese.
- Spanish7.5%
first-person singular present indicative of tapiar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tapio 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 | #1 | 3,698 | 1 in 1.5K | 143K | Tapio | 114 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Tapio | 5 |
| US United States | — | 304 | 1 in 1.1M | 395 | Tapio | 91 |
| NO Norway | — | 214 | 1 in 26K | 214 | Tapio | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 2.7K | Tapio | 41 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 702K | — | Tapio | 3 |
3,698 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tapio is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. finnischer Herkunft (finn. tapio »Wald«, auch Wald- und Jagdgott).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marko Tapiob. 1924FIFinnish writer
- Eeva Tapiob. 1927FIFinnish botanist and professor (1927-2019)
- Eero Tapiob. 1941FIFinnish wrestler (1941–2022)
- Inghilda Tapiob. 1946SESámi writer and artist from Sweden
- Juha K. Tapiob. 1957FIFinnish writer and critic
- Nina Tapiob. 1972FIFinnish singer and songwriter
- Juha Tapiob. 1974FIFinnish musician
- Jussi Tapiob. 1986FIFinnish ice hockey player and coach
- Soile Tapiob. 2000DEresearcher
- Neil Tapiob. 2000USAmerican politician
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 143K | #7 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 112K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.7K | #887 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 537 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 535 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 533 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 532 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 527 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 526 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 517 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 509 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 504 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tapio?
- A machine transcription gives /tæpioʊ/ (IPA) for Chinese.
- What does the name Tapio mean, and where does it come from?
- The god of forest. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tapio have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Tapio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tapio.
- Where is Tapio most common?
- Tapio is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tapio?
- In Finland, the national register counted 3,698 people named Tapio, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Tapio compared with other names?
- In Finland, Tapio is the 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/tapioThe 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, “Tapio” — the most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.