Nurmi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nurmi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Finnish, recorded as lawn, grass (low, dense cover of grass plants; area of land with such a cover).
- FIFinland1 in 280(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 37K
- NONorway1 in 101K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 280 (inferred from the name graph)
19,928 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Нурми in FI Finland.
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)
lawn, grass (low, dense cover of grass plants; area of land with such a cover)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Nurmi is read(measured from records)
Nurmi is one spelling over 3 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.
- English43%
Paavo, Finnish athlete
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Niirnberg [Nuremberg]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
city; Germany
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Finnish26%
lawn, grass (low, dense cover of grass plants; area of land with such a cover)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nurmi in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Nurmi 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 | 19,928 | 1 in 280 | 20K | Нурми | 4 |
| US United States | 587 | 1 in 567K | 587 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 274 | 1 in 37K | 274 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 54 | 1 in 101K | 54 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 18 | 1 in 2.8M | 18 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
19,928 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling nurmi. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Nurmi 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 vot, field, farmland
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, field, meadow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Paavo Nurmib. 1897FIFinnish middle and long distance runner (1897–1973)
- Maila Nurmib. 1922USFinnish American actress (1922–2008)
- Mauno Nurmib. 1936FIfootballer, ice hockey player (1936-2018)
- Tarja Nurmib. 1938FIFinnish actor
- Pirkko Nurmib. 1946FIFinnish actress
- Tuija Nurmib. 1958FIFinnish politician
- Anne Nurmib. 1968FIFinnish singer, composer and keyboard player
- Teemu Nurmib. 1985FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Markus Nurmib. 1998FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Noah Nurmib. 2001FIFinnish association football player
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20K | #50 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 587 | #37,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 575 | #36,672 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 571 | #41,142 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 274 | #3,205 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 54 | #24,929 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 18 | #88,854 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Nurmi mean, and where does it come from?
- lawn, grass (low, dense cover of grass plants; area of land with such a cover) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Nurmi?
- In the etymology graph, Nurmela is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nurmi have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Nurmi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled нурми.
- Where is Nurmi most common?
- Nurmi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 280 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nurmi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 19,928 people named Nurmi, about 1 in 280 residents.
What do you want to know about Nurmi?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nurmiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Nurmi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.