Erkki
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Erkki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eerikki, Eero, or Erik, equivalent to Estonian Erki or English Eric.
- FIFinland1 in 197(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 1.6K
- SESweden1 in 8.5K
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
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 197 (inferred from the name graph)
28,259 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)
a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eerikki, Eero, or Erik, equivalent to Estonian Erki or English Eric
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Erkki 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.
28,259 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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-stat-nimed register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Erkki is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Erkki är en finsk folklig form (äldst belagd 1864) av Eerik (→ Erik).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Finnish form of ERIC (see also EERO ).
as a word
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)
- Erkki Karub. 1887FIFinnish filmmaker (1887–1935)
- Erkki Aaltonenb. 1910FIFinnish composer (1910–1990)
- Erkki Itkonenb. 1913FIFinnish linguist (1913–1992)
- Erkki Katajab. 1924FIFinnish pole vaulter (1924-1969)
- Erkki Tuomiojab. 1946FIFinnish politician (born 1946)
- Erkki Liikanenb. 1950FIFinnish politician and central banker
- Erkki Laineb. 1957FIFinnish ice hockey player (1957-2009)
- Erkki-Sven Tüürb. 1959EEEstonian composer (born 1959)
- Paavo Arhinmäkib. 1976FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Petri Honkonenb. 1987FInot in their usual nameFinnish 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 74K | #18 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 28K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 1.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 1.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.2K | #1,496 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Erkki mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eerikki, Eero, or Erik, equivalent to Estonian Erki or English Eric Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Erkki a male or female name?
- Erkki 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.
- What are other forms of the name Erkki?
- In the etymology graph, Eric, Erik and Erick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Erkki have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Erkki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erkki.
- Where is Erkki most common?
- Erkki is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 197 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Erkki?
- In Finland, the national register counted 28,259 people named Erkki, about 1 in 197 residents.
- How common is Erkki compared with other names?
- In Finland, Erkki is the 66th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/erkkiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Erkki” — the 66th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.