Veli-Pekka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/velipekkɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Veli-Pekka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 117K
- SESweden1 in 157K
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
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,641 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Veli-Pekka 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 | #305 | 2,641 | 1 in 2.1K | 3.1K | Veli-Pekka | 56 |
| SE Sweden | — | 65 | 1 in 157K | 65 | Veli-Pekka | 11 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 117K | listed | Veli-Pekka | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 7.9M | — | Veli-Pekka | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 44M | — | Veli-Pekka | 14 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
2,641 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register), counting the spelling veli-pekka. 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 — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
- VeePee Lehtob. 1948FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer
- Veli-Pekka Lehtolab. 1957FInot in their usual nameSámi professor from Finland
- Veli-Pekka Viljanenb. 1958FInot in their usual nameFinnish professor
- Veli-Pekka Oinonenb. 1959FInot in their usual nameFinnish musician
- Veli-Pekka Harjolab. 1963FInot in their usual nameFinnish canoeist
- Veli-Pekka Kautonenb. 1970FInot in their usual nameFinnish ice hockey player
- Veli-Pekka Tynkkynenb. 1972FInot in their usual nameFinnish political scientist
- Veli-Pekka Nutikkab. 1975FInot in their usual nameFinnish ice hockey player
- Veli-Pekka Nurmib. 1975FInot in their usual nameFinnish association football player
- Veli-Pekka Hänninenb. 2000FInot in their usual nameFinnish actor
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3.1K | #414 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 67 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 66 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 65 | #11,436 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 65 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 64 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 64 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 63 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 62 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 62 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 61 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Veli-Pekka?
- A machine transcription gives /velipekkɑ/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Veli-Pekka a male or female name?
- Veli-Pekka is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Veli-Pekka have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Veli-Pekka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Veli-Pekka.
- Where is Veli-Pekka most common?
- Veli-Pekka is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Veli-Pekka?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,641 people named Veli-Pekka, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Veli-Pekka compared with other names?
- In Finland, Veli-Pekka is the 305th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Veli-Pekka?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/veli-pekkaThe 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, “Veli-Pekka” — the 305th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.