Külli
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/kylli/(machine-generated) Finnish · model-generated
Külli is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From küll (“abundance”). Cognate with Finnish Kylli.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 796K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
8 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From küll (“abundance”). Cognate with Finnish Kylli.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Külli 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.
8 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)- Külli Kangurb. 1949EEEstonian zoologist and hydrobiologist (born 1949)
- Külli Rikasb. 1955EEEstonian archaeologist (1955-2014)
- Külli Lokkob. 1957EEEstonian choir director (born 1957)
- Külli Munab. 1960EEEstonian poet (1960-2003)
- Külli Habichtb. 1964EEEstonian linguist (born 1964)
- Külli Palmsaarb. 1966EEEstonian actress (born 1966)
- Külli Kingob. 1972EEEstonian dermatologist (born 1972)
- Külli Pirksaarb. 1973EEEstonian orienteer and athletics competitor (born 1973)
- Külli Reinumägib. 1974EEEstonian actress (born 1974)
- Külli Teetammb. 1976EEEstonian stage, television and film actress (born 1976)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 2K | #78 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 2K | #67 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 136 | #2,346 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #42,985 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #38,723 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 7 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #10,915 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Külli mean, and where does it come from?
- From küll (“abundance”). Cognate with Finnish Kylli. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Külli?
- In the etymology graph, Küllike is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Külli?
- In Finnish /kylli/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Külli a male or female name?
- Külli is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Estonia (Statistics Estonia) and Finland (DVV).
- In which country does Külli have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 8 people named Külli, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Külli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Külli is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Külli?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 8 people named Külli, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Külli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%BClliThe 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, “Külli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.